a minute agoBiden to meet face-to-face with Xi for the first time as President
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(4 years ago)Joe Biden will meet with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday in the margins of the G20 summit, the White House said in their first face-to-face talks since Biden became president. Biden hopes the meeting will allow him to build a “kat” for relations between two [...]
Beden hopes the meeting will allow him to build a <x0th> for relations between the two countries, but he will be honest about US concerns, including Taiwan and human rights, White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said.
Beden and Xi met for the last time personally during the Obama administration, and US ties with China have fallen to the lowest level in decades, especially since US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, the self-governing democratic island that Beijing claims its territory.
The two presidents have spoken by phone several times over the past 22 months, but COVID-19's pandemic and Xi's disgust over foreign trips has prevented them from meeting personally, reports Guardian.
