Biden meets with Xi Jinping to discuss U.S.-China relations: Live updates

Since that time, relations between the U.S. and China have soured in ways that elevate the risk of an unwanted confrontation, U.S. officials said. As an example, when the Biden administration shot down a Chinese spy balloon that crossed the U.S. in February, the Pentagon had no one in China to contact because Beijing had closed an important military communications channel, a senior Biden administration official told reporters Tuesday while previewing the Biden-Xi meeting. It will be the first time that Biden and Xi have talked — much less met — since a meeting on the sidelines of an international…