Joe Biden to meet Xi Jinping on November 14 for Taiwan, Russia talks
The HinduPresident Joe Biden will meet Monday with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s Group of 20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, a face-to-face meeting that comes amid increasingly strained U.S.-China relations, the White House announced Thursday. It will be the first in-person meeting between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies since Mr. Biden became president in January 2021 and comes weeks after Mr. Xi was awarded a norm-breaking third, five-year term as the Chinese Communist Party leader during the party’s national congress. Mr. Biden on Wednesday told reporters that he intended to discuss with Mr. Xi growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over the self-ruled island of Taiwan, trade policies, Beijing’s relationship with Russia and more. Rather, the official said, Mr. Biden aimed to build a “floor for the relationship.” Mr. Biden and Mr. Xi traveled together in the U.S. and China in 2011 and 2012 when both leaders were serving as their respective countries' vice presidents, and they have held five phone or video calls since Mr. Biden became President in January 2021. Mr. Xi’s government has criticized the Biden administration’s posture toward Taiwan — which Beijing looks eventually to unify with the communist mainland — as undermining China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.