Planning for a face-to-face meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping is underway, the White House said on Friday amid exceedingly strained US-Sino relations.
Biden and Xi “discussed a possible face-to-face meeting during their recent call and agreed to have their teams follow up to sort out the specifics,” Kurt Campbell, Biden’s Indo-Pacific coordinator, told reporters on a conference call.
The directives to lay the groundwork for a sit-down were not mentioned in the readout of the presidential call issued after Biden and Xi spoke on July 28.
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