Later this week on Wednesday, President Biden plans to have a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco. This meeting will be their first in-person encounter in a year, taking place amidst strained relations between the United States and China.
Their previous face-to-face meeting occurred in November of last year during the G20 Summit in Indonesia. Since then, there have been various challenges in the form of trade disputes, technological conflicts, and even a disruption in military communications between China and the US after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan..