2023-11-15 04:35:46
US President Joe Biden and China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping will meet in California on Wednesday to stabilize the strained relations between the two countries. The meeting is planned in the greater San Francisco area and will take place on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Biden and Xi have not seen each other in person since the G20 summit a year ago in Bali, Indonesia.
The US side said that the aim of the conversation was to shape competition between the two countries responsibly, to secure communication channels and to avoid drifting into conflict. The meeting is expected to begin in the evening Central European Time and is expected to last several hours. Information regarding the course of the meeting is not expected until Thursday night.
Biden hopes that relations with China will improve in the future. Shortly before a meeting with China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping, Biden said that it would be a success for him if both countries might reach a “normal course of exchange with each other”. It is a goal to be able to “pick up the phone and talk to each other,” Biden said on Tuesday at the White House in Washington before he left for the meeting in California.
Wednesday’s meeting is planned in the San Francisco area and will take place on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Biden and Xi have not seen each other in person since the G20 summit a year ago in Bali, Indonesia.
Relations between the world’s two largest economies have long been very tense. A trade conflict, espionage allegations, tensions over Taiwan and China’s stance in the Ukraine war had brought the relationship to a low point. In recent months, however, both sides have tried to revive communication with each other. The meeting of presidents was preceded by numerous meetings between high-ranking members of the government of both countries.
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