President Biden will take up 'contentious' international and regional issues with China's Xi, according to senior administration officials.
President Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping next Wednesday, on Nov. 15, in the San Francisco Bay area, the White House announced Friday. The president and the U.S. will work on reopening important military communications channels that have been cut off, managing competition and addressing security issues. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement that Mr. Biden and Xi 'will discuss issues in the U.S.
Another sticking point delaying the restoration of military-to-military communication is the subject of the Chinese spy balloon shot down by a U.S. fighter jet in February, which 'comes up often' in discussions about the military silence, one official said. 'I think the balloon episode underscored the difficulty we had at the time to be able to establish high-level, consequential communications with Beijing.
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