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President Barack Obama and Biden talk with Xi Jinping, February 14, 2012
Biden has said the U.S. needs to "get tough" on China, calling it the "most serious competitor" that poses challenges to the United States' "prosperity, security, and democratic values".[501][502] Biden has spoken about human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region to the Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, pledging to sanction and commercially restrict Chinese government officials and entities who carry out repression.[503][504]
Biden has said he is against regime change, but for providing non-military support to opposition movements.[505] He opposed direct U.S. intervention in Libya,[506][213] voted against U.S. participation in the Gulf War,[507] voted in favor of the Iraq War,[508] and supports a two-state solution in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[509] Biden has pledged to end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and to reevaluate the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia.[270] Biden supports extending the New START arms control treaty with Russia to limit the number of nuclear weapons deployed by both sides.[510][511] In 2021, Biden officially recognized the Armenian genocide, becoming the first U.S. president to do so.