Biden will meet Xi Jinping face-to-face in San Francisco, White House confirms
President Biden and Xi are expected to participate in 'intense diplomacy' at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco
By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News
Published November 1, 2023 8:32am EDT
President Biden is slated to meet face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed the world leaders were scheduled to speak at a summit during a press conference on Tuesday.
"We’ve been talking about it. The president said he’s looking forward to meeting with President Xi and so [I'm] not going to get into details about this meeting that’s going to happen […] next month," said Jean-Pierre. "It’s going to be in San Francisco, it’s going to be a constructive meeting, the president’s looking forward to it."
The White House stressed the importance and mutual benefit of "competition" between the U.S. and China, characterizing the meeting as "intense diplomacy" and a "tough conversation."
The press secretary also told reporters, "Our policy and how we move forward with China hasn’t changed. This is intense competition — that we have said that we want to move forward with China — and intense competition means intense diplomacy, that’s what you’re going to see. That’s what the president is going to be doing and having a tough conversation but important conversation."
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