Biden and Xi to hold summit on Nov. 15, says U.S. senior official

Washington hopes to reestablish top-level communication to avoid clash

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 leaders summit in Bali, Indonesia, in November 2022. © Reuters

MASAHIRO OKOSHI, Nikkei Washington bureau chief

November 8, 2023 13:05 JST

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are preparing for their first summit meeting in a year, which is scheduled for Nov. 15, a senior U.S. government official told Nikkei on Tuesday.

Biden will visit San Francisco, starting Nov. 14, in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting to be held in the city. If the face-to-face talks with Xi happen, it will be the two leaders' first such meeting since November 2022.