Two Superpowers Walk Into a Garden

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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One of the most highly anticipated diplomatic events of the year took place this week in a mansion outside San Francisco. President Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, met to repair their countries’ relations, which had sunk to one of their lowest points in decades. Edward Wong, a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, discusses the effort to bring the relationship back from the brink.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverny Sea, and this is the Daily.
0:05.0	We begin tonight with a critical event for President Biden.
0:14.0	This week, one of the most highly anticipated diplomatic events of the year
0:18.2	took place in a mansion outside San Francisco.
0:20.9	President Biden has a high-stakes summit today with China,
0:24.0	the Xi-jing-Ping.
0:26.0	Where President Biden and Xi-jing-Ping of China met to repair their country's relations.
0:31.3	This is the first time they are meeting,
0:32.7	the first time they are even talking in a year,
0:35.2	and it comes as president by.
0:36.2	Which had sunk to one of the lowest points
0:38.5	since they were established in 1972.
0:41.4	With the world watching,
0:42.4	a lot is riding on this meeting with the nation's biggest
0:45.1	rival. Today, my colleague Edward Wong, on the effort to bring the relationship back from
0:52.1	the break. 17. So Ed, we've been talking to you throughout this year,
1:07.0	so Ed, we've been talking to you throughout this year
1:10.4	about the world's most important relationship and that is the relationship
1:14.6	between the United States and China. And this week there was a breakthrough of sorts.
1:20.3	President Biden and Chinese leader Shizhing Ping met on Wednesday in the United States.
1:26.9	So help us understand what was at stake here.
1:29.5	Well, Sabrina, this is the first time that Zijinping has come to the United States since 2017.
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