Chinese leader Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden China intended to rule Taiwan, NBC News reported.
The conversation took place on the fringes of the Apec summit in November.
Tensions are increasing between China and Taiwan ahead of the election. Chinese leader Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden that China intended to take control of Taiwan in a face-to-face meeting last month, NBC News reported.
The report, citing three former and current US officials, said that the remarks were made during a meeting on the fringes of the Apec summit in San Francisco in November.
While official readouts of the meeting emphasized the common ground the leaders found on issues such as the climate crisis, the report indicated that long-standing tensions over the de facto autonomy of Taiwan also surfaced.