Politics
Biden and Xi agree to meet amid heightened tensions between US and China
Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on San Francisco during the summit
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on Wednesday in California for talks on trade, Taiwan and managing fraught US-Chinese relations in the first engagement between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies in nearly a year.
The White House has said for weeks that it anticipated Biden and Xi would meet on the side-lines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in San Francisco, but negotiations went down to the eve ...
