The highly anticipated meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden at the G20 summit in Bali holds the promise of potentially shaping the future of the world’s top two economies. The meeting is set to take place against the striking backdrop of a historic photo from Xi’s first trip to the U.S. in 1985, a trip that marked the beginning of a lasting relationship between the two nations. As Xi returns to San Francisco for the APEC forum, the stakes are high, with both sides eager for meaningful progress in their fraught relationship. The meeting could provide an opportunity to address a range of thorny geopolitical issues, from the U.S.-China trade war to tensions over Taiwan, to finding common ground on Iran and the Israel-Hamas conflict. The world will be watching closely as the two leaders strive for much needed diplomatic breakthroughs.
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