US and China have agreed to resume military-to-military communications in an effort to ease rising tensions.<br />'' <br />''US President Joe Biden announced this after a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping in California last evening.<br />'' <br />''Mr Biden also said both leaders had agreed to establish a direct line of communication with one another.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">China severed military-to-military communications last year after the then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. </span><br />