The White House has announced that US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet in the US on November 15. The leaders of the two largest economies in the world will discuss trade, Taiwan, and how to handle their tense relations during their first meeting in almost a year in California.
China’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that Xi will be in the US from November 14–17. He’ll be in San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, where he’s expected to meet Biden off-site. Xi and Biden did not cross paths at the G20 meeting in Bali last year. The two presidents will meet in the San Francisco Bay area, according to Biden administration officials who briefed reporters under condition of anonymity. When the summit begins on Saturday, thousands of protestors are anticipated to swarm San Francisco.
The meeting is not expected to lead to many if any, major announcements. One Biden administration official said that the US president was looking towards “managing the competition, preventing the downside risk of conflict and ensuring channels of communication are open”.
In September, the US and China launched new economic and financial working groups to enhance communication on issues of mutual interest, a step US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who visited China in July, called “an important step forward in our bilateral relationship”.
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