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US, China Planning for Leaders Call in the Coming Weeks, White House Says

The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022. (AP)
The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022. (AP)
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US, China Planning for Leaders Call in the Coming Weeks, White House Says

The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022. (AP)
The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022. (AP)

The United States and China are planning for a call between leaders in the coming weeks after "candid, substantive and constructive" discussions in Beijing between White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi.

Earlier, Sullivan said the United States and China are working to ensure the competition between them does not veer into conflict.

“President Biden has been very clear in his conversations with President Xi that he is committed to managing this important relationship responsibly,” Sullivan told Wang during earlier talks.

The goal of his visit, which lasts through Thursday, is limited — to try to maintain communication in a relationship that broke down for the better part of a year in 2022-23 and was only nursed back over several months.

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Two Turks Detained Pending Trial over Deadly Migrant Boat Chase off Greek Island

Migrants crowd a wooden boat as they sail to the port in La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP)
Migrants crowd a wooden boat as they sail to the port in La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP)
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Two Turks Detained Pending Trial over Deadly Migrant Boat Chase off Greek Island

Migrants crowd a wooden boat as they sail to the port in La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP)
Migrants crowd a wooden boat as they sail to the port in La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP)

Two Turkish nationals were detained pending trial for people trafficking on Wednesday after a deadly boat chase with the Greek coastguard off the island of Symi on Aug. 23.

A 39-year-old man, thought to be from Kuwait, was found dead in a speedboat carrying migrants off the east Aegean island. The Greek coastguard said warning shots were fired at the vessel when it ignored calls to stop and engaged in dangerous maneuvers.

The two defendants, 16 and 24 years, have been charged with people smuggling. They have both denied wrongdoing, legal sources said.

They appeared before a judge on the island of Rhodes on Wednesday who ordered their detention pending trial. The date of the trial depends on when the investigating magistrate wraps up a preliminary probe into the case.

A separate courts-martial process is under way against the coast guard officer who shot at the speedboat, charged with involuntary manslaughter and using a firearm for no reason.

In preliminary testimony, the officer said that he acted on his own initiative after the person steering the speedboat attempted to ram the coastguard vessel, placing coastguard crews' lives at risk.

Greece has been a favored gateway to the European Union for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia since 2015, when nearly one million people reached its shores, in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

Thousands of others have died at sea. Numbers have dropped significantly since then and some 18,000 have reached Greece by sea so far this year.