The governments of the United States and China provided different tones in their official readouts of a phone call between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping on Friday.

The two world leaders met virtually for a two hour-long conversation on Friday to discuss the implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a call which White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki described as mutually agreed-upon but which Chinese state-run media outlet Xinhua emphasized was requested by the United States.

The White House’s official readout of the call was centrally focused on President Biden’s descriptions of U.S. interests to his Chinese counterpart and the warnings he gave to President Xi about assisting Russia in its war with Ukraine.

Biden “described the implications and consequences if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians,” according to the readout. He also “reiterated that U.S. policy on Taiwan has not changed, and emphasized that the United States continues to oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo.”

Although Jen Psaki later asserted that the Chinese side was the first to bring up the issue of Taiwan, any discussion of the island nation is palpably absent from Xinhua’s readout of the call. This could be in part because Chinese officials have previously asserted that the Taiwan issue is not up for negotiation with other countries.

Whereas the White House readout mostly discussed the U.S. position on issues and U.S. warnings toward Beijing, the Xinhua readout––which Jen Psaki says was published prior to the call even ending––attempted to take a much more cooperative tone.

According to the Chinese state-run outlet, Xi told Biden, “As permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and the world’s two leading economies, we must not only guide the China-U.S. relationship forward along the right track, but also shoulder our share of international responsibilities and work for world peace and tranquility.” Xinhua repeatedly noted Xi’s alleged focus on “peace,” “security,” “development,” tranquility, and stability throughout the summary.

While the White House and Xinhua each noted that their respective president is opposed to the war in Ukraine generally, the language used in each statement to describe the events was again starkly different.

“The Ukraine crisis is not something we want to see,” said President Xi, according to Xinhua. The outlet says the Chinese president expressed that “countries should not come to the point of meeting on the battlefield” and that “conflict and confrontation are not in anyone’s interest,” but the statement did not once mention Russia by name nor condemn the invasion itself.

The White House readout, on the other hand, described the events as “Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine” and “brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians,” striking a harsher tone and calling out the perpetrator by name.

The difference in messaging follows recent patterns in China’s attempts to publicly appear neutral on the war in Ukraine while still trying to build an image as a responsible stakeholder on the world stage.