1 year, 5 months ago
Why Xi Jinping is playing hard to get with Joe Biden
Xi Jinping, China’s president, will finally sit down with Joe Biden, the United States president, on Wednesday after months of playing hard to get. The two leaders have not spoken since, but Washington dispatched four cabinet-level officials to Beijing over the summer in an effort to get things back on track. And once nailed down, China initially suggested Mr Xi would first sit down to a banquet with American business leaders, US media reported. On a visit to Washington last month, Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, warned that the road to San Francisco would “not be a smooth one”.
