Biden plans November meeting with China’s Xi -Washington Post.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that the White House is organizing a face-to-face meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and American President Joe Biden in San Francisco next month as the two nations attempt to mend strained ties.

Relationships between the two greatest economies in the world have deteriorated recently due to various issues, including Taiwan, the cause of the COVID-19 epidemic, surveillance suspicions, human rights concerns, and trade tariffs, among others.

The newspaper reported senior unnamed U.S. officials stating that the likelihood of a meeting was “pretty firm.”

The newspaper reported the official as stating, “We’re beginning the process” of planning.

The Chinese embassy in Washington made no particular remarks regarding the newspaper article. In a statement sent through email, an embassy official stated that the two nations continued to communicate and needed to increase their “good faith” collaboration. The White House did not immediately respond with a statement.

The meeting would come after previous important bilateral talks between the two nations in recent months, including U.S. officials’ trips to China, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in July, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in August.

More recently, Blinken met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in New York, and in Malta, Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Their most recent encounter took place in November 2022 in Indonesia during the G20 conference. It was their first face-to-face encounter since Biden took office. Before Biden took office, they had five phone and video conference conversations.

Any meeting between Xi and Biden will rely on the United States “showing sufficient sincerity,” China’s top security agency said last month.

Despite recent statements from American leaders like Raimondo and Yellen that the country did not seek to separate from China, Beijing has voiced alarm over Washington’s support of arms shipments and military finance to Taiwan.

In November, an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit will be held in San Francisco, and Xi could go. Biden recently attended the G20 conference in New Delhi while Xi stayed home.