<p class="Component-root-0-2-470 p Component-p-0-2-457"><a class="paragraph-link" href="https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden" _mce_href="https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a>&nbsp;will meet Monday with&nbsp;<a class="paragraph-link" href="https://apnews.com/hub/xi-jinping" _mce_href="https://apnews.com/hub/xi-jinping">President Xi Jinping</a>&nbsp;on the sidelines of next week’s&nbsp;<a class="paragraph-link" href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-southeast-asia-trip-china-ukraine-election-f71ee52a79a2bcbd029a9c9cbba32437" _mce_href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-southeast-asia-trip-china-ukraine-election-f71ee52a79a2bcbd029a9c9cbba32437">Group of 20 Summit</a>&nbsp;in Bali, Indonesia, a face-to-face meeting that comes amid&nbsp;<a class="paragraph-link" href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-taiwan-china-united-states-business-7a54612663d36b6223dfa9bbf20e4bdd" _mce_href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-taiwan-china-united-states-business-7a54612663d36b6223dfa9bbf20e4bdd">increasingly strained U.S.-China relations</a>, the White House announced Thursday.</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-470 p Component-p-0-2-457">It will be the first in-person meeting between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies since Biden became president in January 2021 and comes weeks after Xi was awarded a&nbsp;<a class="paragraph-link" href="https://apnews.com/article/xi-jinping-china-beijing-government-and-politics-21fa1812435b563f2532effb4fe5758e" _mce_href="https://apnews.com/article/xi-jinping-china-beijing-government-and-politics-21fa1812435b563f2532effb4fe5758e">norm-breaking third, five-year term</a>&nbsp;as the Chinese Communist Party leader during the party’s national congress.</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-470 p Component-p-0-2-457">White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement the leaders will meet to “discuss efforts to maintain and deepen lines of communication between” the two countries and to “responsibly manage competition and work together where our interests align, especially on transnational challenges that affect the international community.”</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-470 p Component-p-0-2-457">The White House has been working with Chinese officials over the last several weeks to arrange the meeting. Biden on Wednesday told reporters that he intended to discuss with Xi growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over the self-ruled island of Taiwan, trade policies, Beijing’s relationship with Russia and more.</p> <div class="Component-hubPeekEmbed-0-2-465 HubPeek noBorderBottom-0-2-130 compressedEmbed-0-2-131 hubPeekMainArticle"> <div class="hubPeekContainerWide-0-2-474"> <div class="title-0-2-475"><a class="blueTitle-0-2-476 blueTitle-25-0-2-848 overrideArticle hubPeekTitleArticle" href="https://apnews.com/hub/china" _mce_href="https://apnews.com/hub/china"> <h3 class="title-0-2-475"></h3> </a><br _mce_bogus="1"></div> </div> </div>