U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese language President Xi Jinping will maintain a long-telegraphed assembly on Nov. 16 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru, in line with senior U.S. administration officers.
This would be the first convening of the 2 leaders since final November, and it’s anticipated to be the final of the Biden presidency. The U.S. officers, who spoke to reporters on situation of anonymity underneath phrases set by the administration, stated no main new deliverables are on the desk; as a substitute, the 2 leaders will focus on the agenda they set out at their assembly on the sidelines of final yr’s APEC summit in California.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese language President Xi Jinping will maintain a long-telegraphed assembly on Nov. 16 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru, in line with senior U.S. administration officers.
This would be the first convening of the 2 leaders since final November, and it’s anticipated to be the final of the Biden presidency. The U.S. officers, who spoke to reporters on situation of anonymity underneath phrases set by the administration, stated no main new deliverables are on the desk; as a substitute, the 2 leaders will focus on the agenda they set out at their assembly on the sidelines of final yr’s APEC summit in California.
Within the yr since, the US and China have managed to forge new stability via elevated diplomatic contact. They’ve used that stability to push ahead cooperation on military-to-military communication, local weather change, fentanyl, and synthetic intelligence, even whereas each international locations have continued to take assertive actions in different areas, from expertise restrictions to Taiwan.
With President-elect Donald Trump taking workplace in January, although, that cautious stability of cooperation and competitors is all however assured to be forged apart in change for a extra mercantilist strategy.
The Biden administration’s precedence at this weekend’s assembly appears to be retaining relations as easy as doable till then. “We’ll anticipate to attempt to proceed to make sure that we’ve acquired these channels working—legislation enforcement and [military-to-military] particularly—which we see as important to underpinning stability within the relationship within the interval forward,” a senior administration official stated.
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