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Biden and Xi Jinping will meet in San Francisco in November

The spokesperson assured that the United States wants to improve its relations with China, which have deteriorated in recent months due to US support for Taiwan, considered by Beijing to be a rebel province, and due to reports about Chinese attempts to spy on Washington.

  • 03/11/2023 • 09:17

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will meet this month in San Francisco, the White House reported without giving further details. "The president (Biden) said that he is looking forward to meeting with President Xi. I am not going to go into details about this meeting that is going to happen in the month of November. It will be in San Francisco. It will be a constructive meeting. The president is looking forward to arrives," White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre declared on Tuesday. Although Jean-Pierre did not express it, it is believed that the meeting could be held on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) to be held in mid-November in that city. The spokesperson assured that the United States wants to improve its relations with China, which have deteriorated in recent months due to US support for Taiwan, considered by Beijing to be a rebel province, and due to reports about Chinese attempts to spy on Washington. Both countries have held intense meetings in this same period to try to reduce the tensions that arose from the aforementioned, the last one between their Foreign Ministers, Antony Blinken and Wang Yi, in Washington, on Thursday, October 26. The meeting will take place in the midst of a complicated situation on the world stage, with the United States supporting Israel and Ukraine in the wars with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Russia respectively. Beijing, meanwhile, is Moscow's most powerful financial ally at a time when the Kremlin has been isolated from the international scene by most Western countries. In this scenario, and with the trade war started by Donald Trump's Government as a background scenario, the leaders of the two largest economies in the world will sit down to negotiate in San Francisco.