Superpower summit set for APEC sidelines as Biden and Xi seek to stabilize relations

Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Nov. 14, 2022.KEVIN LAMARQUE/Reuters The most consequential part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in San Francisco this week may well be a meeting on the sidelines between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping - their first in a year. They are expected to make fresh efforts to stabilize an eroding relationship that was derailed at the start of 2023 when a Chinese spy balloon drifted across North American…