[Central News Agency] U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau issued a joint statement today stating that the basic position of the United States and Canada on the Taiwan issue remains unchanged, reaffirming that maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is an indispensable element for the security and prosperity of the international community, and encouraging a peaceful solution cross-strait issues.

Biden (Joe Biden) flew to Ottawa (Ottawa), the capital of Canada, last night for a visit. He held bilateral talks with Justin Trudeau this morning and issued a joint statement after the meeting.

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The statement noted that the United States and Canada's enduring partnership is based on a shared commitment to shared security, shared prosperity, and shared democratic values, including the importance of addressing climate change and enduring respect for human rights and the rule of law.

In the part of strengthening the global alliance, Biden and Trudeau condemned Russia's military invasion of Ukraine through a statement, and vowed to continue to make Russia pay the economic price and continue to support Ukraine unswervingly when needed.

The statement pointed out that the United States and Canada believe that the People's Republic of China poses severe long-term challenges to the international order, including economic coercion, non-market policies and practices, and destructive behaviors such as human rights violations.

While cooperating with China on issues such as climate change, it remains committed to ensuring the ability to compete effectively with China on a level playing field.

Canada and the United States will also continue to cooperate to combat foreign interference in American and Canadian society, in order to demonstrate the democratic values ​​shared by both sides.

When it comes to Taiwan, Biden and Trudeau emphasized in their statement that the basic position of the United States and Canada on the Taiwan issue remains unchanged, reiterated that maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is an indispensable element for the security and prosperity of the international community, and encouraged the peaceful resolution of cross-strait issues.

The statement also reaffirmed its commitment to the "Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity" (Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity), welcomed the US-Canada Indo-Pacific Strategic Dialogue (US-Canada Indo-Pacific Strategic Dialogue) held for the first time on the 10th, and will work together to promote A free, open, prosperous, secure and resilient Indo-Pacific region.

The United States and Canada will also strengthen the resilience of critical minerals and semiconductor supply chains, and move towards the establishment of reliable and sustainable critical minerals supply chains, because this is critical to the US and Canadian economies and national security.

Both countries will also increase investment to promote a secure and resilient semiconductor supply chain, creating jobs for both countries.

The two also talked about promoting clean energy and creating jobs, including proposing regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before autumn, and cooperating with other major energy importing and exporting countries to develop international unified standards. The United States and Canada also established a one-year energy transition Working groups to accelerate collaboration on key clean energy opportunities and supply chains.

(Editor: Xu Ruicheng) 1120325