At the San Francisco meeting, Joe Biden will put pressure on Xi Jinping to resume military communications.

At the San Francisco meeting, Joe Biden will put pressure on Xi Jinping to resume military communications.

 The US and Chinese presidents will meet for the first time in a year ahead of the Apec forum.

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In a meeting with Xi Jinping ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit next week, Joe Biden will put pressure on the Chinese leader over the necessity of resuming communications between the US and Chinese military. The White House announced on Friday that Xi and Biden would have a meeting on Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay region before to their attendance at Apec. In the face of escalating tensions over problems like Chinese military action close to Taiwan and US efforts to prevent China from obtaining cutting-edge US technology, the two sides are attempting to redouble their efforts to stabilize relations. One year after their first encounter at the G20 in Bali, Indonesia, the summit will mark their second face-to-face gathering as leaders. Since meeting then-president Donald Trump in Florida in April 2017, Xi has not traveled to the United States. After meeting with Biden, Xi is anticipated to go to a dinner with US businesspeople. The possibility of reopening military communication channels that China closed last year during US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's travel to Taiwan is among the issues that US sources indicated the leaders will discuss. Concerns over Chinese fighter jets flying too close to US spy planes and surveillance aircraft being flown over the South China Sea by US allies, including Canada, have been voiced by Washington. "We think that the president has been committed to taking the required actions to reestablish central military communications between the United States and China," a US official stated. According to the official, Biden will discuss with Xi the "dangerous" and "provocative" military actions by China near Taiwan, which have increased dramatically since the US president assumed office almost three years ago. The person declared, "The president will make those points again next week in San Francisco. He has made them consistently." According to officials, Biden and Xi would also talk about the situation in Ukraine. In a two-day meeting in San Francisco, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen revealed on Friday that she had informed her counterpart He Lifeng that Beijing should take strict measures against private Chinese enterprises who supply Russia with technology so that Moscow may wage war on Kiev. "I emphasized that we were ready to implement additional sanctions and that it is crucial to us that companies not supply materials for Russia's defense industrial sector," Yellen stated. "We hope China takes stronger action [against the companies], particularly when we supply intelligence." Authorities emphasized that the Biden-Xi summit, which came after months of high-level talks, did not signal a shift in US policy toward China but rather an acknowledgment that the two countries required efficient lines of communication. According to the US official, "intense competition requires and demands intense diplomacy to manage tensions and prevent competition from verging into conflict." "Using diplomacy, we can dispel misconceptions, communicate, signal, prevent surprises, and justify our competitive actions." The two leaders will engage in "in-depth communication on issues of strategic, overarching and fundamental importance in shaping China-US relations and major issues concerning world peace and development," according to China's ambassador to the US, Xie Feng.