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Foreign Policy Live

Takeaways From the Biden-Xi Meeting

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.1622 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the United States for the first time in six years this week, announcing with U.S. President Joe Biden a range of new collaborations between the world’s two biggest economies. Host Ravi Agrawal convenes a panel to analyze takeaways from this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco and is joined by FP’s James Palmer, the Spectator’s Cindy Yu, and former Obama administration advisor Evan Medeiros. Suggested reading: Robbie Gramer: Biden and Xi Try the Personal Touch James Palmer: Can Xi and Biden Repair U.S.-China Ties? Agathe Demarais: Don’t Expect Much From Biden and Xi Christina Lu: Beijing Tightens Its Grip on the Critical Minerals Sector Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

1:10.4

Welcome to the show. It is the most important meeting between two people this year.

1:17.0

Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first visit to the United States in six years this week,

1:22.7

and he spent time with a man he knows quite well, U.S. President Joe Biden. The two emerged from

1:29.1

their meetings with agreements to resume military communications, stop the flow of chemical

1:34.1

precursors for fentanyl to the United States, and an agreement to cooperate on artificial

1:40.2

intelligence. These were all things the White House has been pushing for, and in return,

1:46.2

Xi seems to have gotten some breathing room to focus on China's economic troubles instead of

1:52.1

bilateral tensions with the United States for now. The meeting in San Francisco's APEC summit this

1:58.6

week is the culmination of more recent talks between officials

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