Biden Is Set For High-Stakes Meeting With China’s Xi

President Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 15 in San Francisco in what the White House views as the most important and consequential bilateral meeting of Biden’s term.

The two leaders will meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, one year since they last talked face-to-face on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia and as global conflicts and direct tensions between Washington and Beijing have derailed communication and cooperation. 

“We know efforts to shape or reform China over several decades have failed. But we expect China to be around and to be a major player on the world stage for the rest of our lifetimes,” a senior administration official said during a call with reporters Thursday evening.

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