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US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet next week at the APEC summit, but no details have been released about the meeting, or what will be discussed.
Biden and Xi will meet as they both attend next week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Until now, even basic information has remained closely guarded. Statements by the Chinese government on Friday did not mention the day or the location. The White House, citing security concerns, says only that the meeting will be held "in the Gulf area."
It is still not known if there will be a joint statement after the meeting and how much of the session will be in front of the public? The plan is to allocate enough time for in-depth conversations on the issues that will be divided into different sessions.
Officials also noted that this will be Xi's first trip to the United States in six years and his first to San Francisco since he was provincial secretary of the Communist Party.
Victor Cha, former director of Asian Affairs at the White House's National Security Council, said that organizing such meetings in APEC is easier than in an official country. But adding that concluding talks on the sidelines of the summit is still "a logistical nightmare".
Two senior Biden administration officials, who earlier spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said the leaders would meet in the San Francisco Bay Area, but declined to provide details of further due to security concerns. Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on San Francisco during the summit.
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng met for a second day of talks on Friday in San Francisco, the latest in a string of high-level engagements between the nations in recent months aimed at easing tensions.
Yellen said that during the talks she emphasized that the US wants a healthy economic relationship with China. She called on China to crack down on private Chinese firms and financial institutions that the US believes are circumventing international sanctions to do business with Russia, and she raised concerns about controls on Chinese exports of graphite and other critical minerals. Graphite is a main raw material in electric vehicle batteries./ AP
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