The American leader will also make clear to his Chinese counterpart that he intends to “build commonsense guardrails” to avoid miscalculation or misunderstanding about the relationship between the two countries, a senior Biden administration said previewing the meeting on condition of anonymity.
The Monday evening meeting will be the first face-to-face meeting - virtually - between the two leaders who have had extensive telephone conversations on two occasions before, the most recent of which was on September 9.The two nations, the official said starkly describing the current state of relationship, are in a “fundamentally different place with each other than we have been in the past”.
The official sought to tamp down expectations from the meeting, which is expected to last some hours, saying, “this meeting is about our ongoing efforts to responsibly manage the competition not about agreeing to a specific deliverable or outcome” and setting the terms of the competition will be an ongoing effort and this meeting between the two leaders is one step in that.
