President Joe Biden has sought to cultivate China’s leader Xi Jinping despite a hardening view of the leader as an autocrat and adversary . Biden and Xi last spoke in person on the sidelines of the G summit in Bali last November in the hopes of establishing what US officials called a floor in the USChina relationship . After months of acrimony administration officials have recently begun visiting Beijing in a bid to reestablish regular communication . At Camp David on Friday agreements on joint military and technology initiatives will be made against the looming backdrop of Beijings growing power . The talks were watched closely in Tokyo and Seoul where Chinas military and economic aggressions are an everpresent reality and a motivator in mending a longtarnished relationship . BidenXi meetings are now treated as the biggest possible gametime for Biden the official explained. The Presidents level of focus is off the charts. The most intense the most focus that Ive ever seen President Biden is in advance of these engagements with President Xi. BidenXi met with Xi on Friday . The two men have been challenged in new ways by his relationship with Xi as the two countries have risen to the leader level. When they engaged last time neither of them had power when they engaged before . Xi has an enormous amount of power now. It wasnt so long ago that Xi was invited to his own highprofile summits. Those types of engagements are difficult to imagine. It is hard to imagine . Those kinds of engagements were impossible to imagine now. When . President Barack Obama hosted him at Sunnylands. President Donald Trump served him . President Obama hosted . President Trump served . President Donald Donald Trump . Biden served him chocolate cake at MaraLago at Mara . President Biden served . Obama hosted his own .
Biden preps for Asian allies summit, Chinese tensions loom large . Biden will attend
