US President Joe Biden said Friday he expects to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this year, despite taking a
Biden held his first meeting as president with Xi in November 2022 in Bali where they agreed to work to manage high tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
Biden is inviting Xi in November to San Francisco when the United States holds a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which includes China. Biden’s confidence at a meeting with Xi, whom he saw at length when they were both vice presidents, comes despite a series of statements and actions that have irritated China.
In June, Biden called Xi a “dictator,” comments denounced by China which came on the heels of a visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the top-ranking US official to go to China in nearly five years.
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