By Bay City News.
The Chairman Joe Biden more than four hours into a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Bay Area on Wednesday as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit that has been taking place in the region for the past week.
Biden and Xi met at the Filoli estate in Woodside, south of San Francisco, on Wednesday morning for the bilateral meeting that began with Both heads of state acknowledge a tense relationship between the two countries.
“We've known each other for a long time, we haven't always agreed, which doesn't surprise anyone,” Biden said. “We have to ensure that competition does not conflict.”
A media report on the meeting, citing a “senior administration official,” said the talks covered topics including the role of Chinese law enforcement in the production of fentanyl, a drug that has sparked an opioid crisis in the United States; reviving talks between the two countries’ militaries; collaboration on artificial intelligence issues; and ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine as well as the war between Israel and Hamas.
Taiwan's status and Xi's preference for a "peaceful zone" and reunification of the country with China was "the biggest potentially dangerous challenge in U.S.-China relations," the official said, according to a statement.