Chinese leader Xi Jinping said war is"in no bone's interest"during a phone call Friday with Joe Biden in which the US chairman aimed to pressure Beijing into joining Western commination of Russia's irruption of Ukraine.
The 150 hour-long phone call ended at 1053 am in Washington (1453 GMT), the White House said.
State broadcaster CCTV reported Xi saying during the call that" state-to- state relations can not go to the stage of military conflict."
China and the United States should"shoulder transnational liabilities,"Xi was quoted as saying, as well as declaring that" peace and security are the most valued treasures of the transnational community."
It wasn't incontinently clear if Xi made any direct review of Russian President Vladimir Putin's rush against Ukraine or expressed amenability to help the US- led pressure crusade on the Kremlin.
In their first call since November, Biden hoped to convert Xi to at least give up any idea of bailing out Russia.
China should" understand that their future is with the United States, with Europe, with other developed and developing countries around the world. Their future isn't to stand with Vladimir Putin,"Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told CNN before Friday.
So far Beijing has refused to condemn its fellow authoritarian supporter, and Washington fears China could deliver fiscal and military support for Russia, transubstantiating an formerly explosive transatlantic standoff into a global disagreement.
Still, not only could Beijing help Putin to ride warrants and continue his war, but Western governments would face the painful decision of how to strike back at the world's second biggest frugality, If that happed..