President Joe Biden will likely meet with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping later in the year for the pair’s first face-to-face, according to a White House official.
Kurt Campbell, White House Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, confirmed that Biden and Xi agreed to set up a face-to-face meeting during their last conference call in July, but that there were “no details” about the time and location for that meeting.
During that last call, Xi said that the United States was “playing with fire” by allowing congressional delegations to visit Taiwan, continuing a trend of increasingly bellicose rhetoric from Beijing that has included outright threats of war against the United States….