Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will hold a high-profile summit in San Francisco on Wednesday in a renewed attempt to stabilise US-China relations after several years of rising tensions and mounting concern about a possible conflict over Taiwan.
The US administration has played down expectations ahead of the meeting, saying it was focused on managing risks of further deterioration in the relationship and preventing conflict rather than producing splashy outcomes.
It will be Biden and Xi’s second in-person meeting since the US president took office in 2021, and will last four hours. They will meet at the Filoli estate south of San Francisco where they will also have lunch before attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum with other world leaders in the city.