US Going To Hold China Accountable To Follow Rules, Says Biden

Addressing his first solo news conference in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, Joe Biden said that soon he is going to invite an alliance of democracies to come to Washington DC to "discuss the future"

The United States working with its partners and allies is going to hold China accountable to follow the rules, US President Joe Biden has said, as he referred to his recent meeting with leaders from Quad countries involving Australia, India and Japan. "Earlier this month, and apparently got the Chinese attention, that's not why did it, I met with our allies and -- how we're going to hold China accountable in the region, Australia, India, Japan, the United States, the so-called Quad, because we have to have democracies working together," he said. Addressing his first solo news conference in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, Biden said that soon he is going to invite an alliance of democracies to come to Washington DC to "discuss the future". "We are going to make it clear that, in order to deal with these things, we are going to hold China accountable to follow the rules, to follow the rules, whether it relates to the South China Sea or the North China Sea or the agreement made on Taiwan or a whole range of other things," he asserted. The conference was attended by 30 reporters from various media outlets, including two foreign correspondents.