President Joe Biden raised the need for talks about “strategic stability” during his first virtual summit with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, according the president’s national security advisor. “The two leaders agreed that we would look to begin to carry forward discussions on strategic stability,” said White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan. Sullivan delivered the remarks during a readout of the summit, hosted by Washington-based think tank Brookings Institution. He noted that there were no mature dialogue mechanisms over strategic stability with China as there are with Russia, but hoped for more cooperation in the future. Intense Discussion of Broad Issues Sullivan described the summit as a “more intense, engaged session” than previous phone calls between the two national leaders. Biden and Xi spoke about working to improve diplomacy, technology, and security issues, he said. No firm bilateral commitment on the issues was achieved, however. As such, Sullivan said …