拜登在CNN的“市民对话”节目里谈到他与习近平的关系:“我与习近平交谈的时间,比任何其他世界领导人多,与他会面的时间也是如此。这就是为什么你会听到人们说,拜登想与中国发动新冷战。我不想与中国发动冷战。我希望中国明白,我们不会退让,改变我们的任何观点。”(I have spoken and spent more time with Xi Jinping than any other world leader has. That’s why you have — you know, you hear people saying, “Biden wants to start a new Cold War with China.” I don’t want a Cold War with China. I just want to make China understand that we are not going to step back. We are not going to change any of our views.)