Joe Biden, Xi Jinping to hold constructive meeting in San Francisco this month, confirms White House

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Modi has also been invited for the APEC Leadership summit by President Biden. India is most likely to be represented by a Cabinet-level minister. Coming back to the Pierre's statement on Biden's meeting with Xi, she told reporters, “We've been talking about it.

The President said he's looking forward to meeting -- to meeting with President Xi. And -- and so, not going to get into details about this meeting that's going to happen in November. It's going to be in San Francisco.

It's going to be a constructive meeting." “Look, what I'm saying is that we're aiming to have a constructive conversation, meeting between the leaders in San Francisco in November. So that's what I'm saying. That's what's going to happen in November.

We're going to have constructive conversation in San Francisco," she added. She also noted that the Biden Administration's approach to improving relations with China remains unchanged. “This is intense competition, right, that we have said that we want to move forward with China.

We understand that and intense competition means intense diplomacy. That's what you're going to see. That's what the president is going to be doing and having a tough conversation, but important conversation," she said.

“I'm not going to get into any kind of, you know, decisions made on this. This is going to be about the diplomatic conversations. We've seen about three secretaries go to China and have these diplomatic conversations.

We saw Secretary Blinken, we saw National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan having important conversations, diplomatic conversations with their counterparts in China. This is an important relationship. Again, this is about competition.