2023-11-10 13:09:47
US President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first face-to-face summit meeting in a year on the 15th. This was announced by multiple US government officials.
The meeting between President Xi Jinping, who will be in the United States for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, and President Biden is intended to stabilize U.S.-China relations. Senior officials cautioned once morest expectations that any major agreement would be reached, explaining that the focus would be on eliminating misunderstandings in the bilateral relationship.
According to a senior official who spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity on the 9th, President Biden is expected to convey to President Xi the need for open channels of communication, including with the military. He will also discuss issues related to artificial intelligence (AI), the synthetic opioid fentanyl and Americans detained in China.
After then-Speaker Pelosi of the US House of Representatives visited Taiwan in August last year, China cut off military lines of communication with the US, but both countries are expected to announce the resumption of military-to-military communications. This was revealed by a person familiar with the plan.
The U.S. also hopes to reach an agreement to help China crack down on chemical ingredients used in fentanyl production, the people said.
It will be the first time since 2011 that the APEC summit will be held in the United States. All we know regarding the location of the US-China summit is that it will be in the San Francisco Bay Area.
President Biden and President Xi last met face-to-face on November 14, 2022. The meeting in Bali, Indonesia, where the Group of 20 (G20) summit was held, lasted regarding three and a half hours.
This will be President Xi’s first visit to the United States since 2017. At that time, he met with then-President Trump in Florida.
Original title:Biden, Xi Set to Meet Nov. 15 on Sidelines of APEC Summit(excerpt)
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