Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Tuesday, official media announced, heading to San Francisco to hold talks with his American counterpart, Joe Biden.
CCTV reported: “On the evening of November 14, President Xi Jinping left Beijing on a private plane. At the invitation of US President Biden, he will go to San Francisco for a meeting between the presidents of China and the United States.”
The two presidents will meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the city in California, marking their first meeting in a year, despite trade tensions, sanctions, and the Taiwan issue causing disagreements between the two largest economic powers in the world.
The positive momentum of Xi-Biden’s November 2022 talks in Bali was derailed, when the United States shot down what was suspected to be a Chinese espionage balloon, in an incident that led to the postponement of a scheduled visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Since then, a series of high-level diplomatic moves, including Blinken’s recent visit to Beijing in June, have indicated that the two sides are looking to repair relations.
On Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the two leaders’ summit will include “in-depth communication on strategic, general, and confusing issues within the framework of relations between China and the United States, in addition to major issues related to global peace and development.”
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2023-11-14 13:06:30
