he November 15 meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden before the start of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in San Francisco, California, was their first face-to-face communication since the Group of 20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, one year ago. Given the decline in relations between the two nations, expectations for the meeting were, not surprisingly, relatively modest. Xi and Biden talked for over four hours and agreed to
