The 3-hour 12-minute meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping on 14 November in Bali, Indonesia, at the G-20 summit is the most important summit meeting in recent times. The last meeting between the two was in 2017 at the World Economic Forum in Davos when Biden was Vice President.
The two leaders had known each other for over a decade when both were vice presidents. Xi Jinping has been the supreme leader of China since 2013, and it appears that he might continue to hold office indefinitely. Biden has done well in the mid-term elections, even though it is likely that his party might not be controlling the House of Representatives. It is unclear whether he would even seek another term, not to say whether he will get re-elected.
It may be recalled that the official visit of Speaker Nancy Pelosi in August this year, with or without Biden’s endorsement, raised the tension between the two superpowers, with China flexing its military muscle, compelling the United States to respond in kind up to a point.
Both China and the United States have, grosso modo, described the summit meeting as positive even as one can discern differences in nuance. Let us look at the issues discussed.
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