Biden and Xi Jinping to Meet During APEC in San Francisco. What’s on the Agenda?

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Starting on November 11, leaders from around the Pacific Rim descend on San Francisco for APEC, and one of the most anticipated meetings is a conversation between President Biden and China’s leader, Xi Jinping. On the heels of recent economic and diplomatic tensions, analysts believe this could be a chance to stabilize relations between two of the world’s economic superpowers. With important elections in Taiwan and the U.S. on the horizon and global conflicts in need of addressing, the agenda could cover topics from tariffs to the fentanyl crisis. We’ll talk with experts about what’s on the table for discussion. Guests: Victor Shih, director, U.C. San Diego's 21st Century China Center Colleen Cottle, deputy director, Atlantic Council's Global China Hub Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. There's a lot going on in the world right now.
1:02.0	But at a structural level, there's no more important bilateral link than the one between the United States and China.
1:08.0	The two countries have a fraught official relationship. Our political systems are wildly different and our national histories are too.
1:14.6	But the global economic system is as tightly integrated with American dollars and corporate know-how as it is with Chinese technical expertise and manufacturing.
1:23.6	If COVID taught us nothing else, it should have been that the fates of the U.S. and China
1:28.2	are irreversibly linked. With strife around the world and important elections coming up in Taiwan
1:33.2	and the U.S., President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have a lot to talk about, and they'll do it
1:38.3	this week in the Bay Area. We'll talk about it after this news.
1:47.0	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Over the last 40 years, the U.S. and China have become
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