As President Biden meets President Xi Jinping of China in California on Wednesday, his main objective will probably be easy: Find a technique to keep away from an more and more bitter competitors with China from tipping into battle.
For two leaders who’ve agreed on little or no as their nations have spiraled into their worst relationship in 4 many years, there have been hints of how they may attempt to nudge towards the looks of settlement. A senior administration official mentioned they’re anticipated to succeed in the define of an settlement that might commit Beijing to regulating parts of fentanyl, the drug that has pushed a devastating opioid epidemic in the United States. But China has made comparable commitments earlier than.
They are anticipated to announce a discussion board for a dialogue of tips on how to hold synthetic intelligence packages away from nuclear command and management — on the identical second the United States is denying China the superior chips it must develop and prepare A.I. packages. And they may in all probability focus on resuming military-to-military communications, which China minimize off after then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan final yr.
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Mr. Biden arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday with the town locked down for the summit for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, generally known as APEC, a group of 21 international locations that encompass the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Biden is assembly with Mr. Xi on Wednesday morning, and in the afternoon he deliberate to carry a information convention.
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The interactions between the 2 leaders once they meet on the Filoli property, a historic home and backyard simply northwest of the Stanford campus, have been fastidiously choreographed. But loads of thorny points stay, together with some Mr. Biden’s aides have mentioned he intends to boost, such because the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the upcoming election in Taiwan, a self-governing island that China claims as its personal.
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Administration officers have tried to decrease expectations in regards to the form of concrete commitments that used to emerge from such summits, saying that the mere incontrovertible fact that the leaders of the world’s high two economies, and most potent militaries, are speaking once more is itself a signal of progress.
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During a fund-raiser on Tuesday, Mr. Biden recommended that financial headwinds in China, alongside together with his administration’s work to construct partnerships in the Indo-Pacific, had introduced Mr. Xi to the negotiating desk. “President Xi is another example of how re-establishing American leadership in the world is taking hold,” Mr. Biden mentioned. “They’ve got real problems, folks.”
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No joint assertion is predicted on Wednesday: American officers say every authorities will present its personal account of the discussions.
