Biden and Xi try to calm tensions: 3 takeaways from the high stakes U.S.-China meeting in California

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President Joe Biden greets China's President President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Wednesday, Nov, 15, 2023. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) President Biden told reporters that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had made “important progress” during a four-hour meeting in Northern California on Wednesday, their first face-to-face encounter in a year. Xi had not been to the United States since 2017 , when he visited then-President Trump in Florida. During the Biden administration, China and the United States have maintained intense economic competition, with the added factor of geopolitical tension...