The meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping represented a clear breakthrough in the deteriorating U.S.-China relationship, Chinese Prime Minister Wang Yi said to reporters in a briefing on Nov. 15.
Given that the meeting was the first face-to-face of the two leaders and their first meeting after they had completed their respective domestic agendas this year, he remarked, “the Bali meeting is not only a continuation of their past exchanges, but also the signal of a new starting point. The meetings lasted more than three hours even with simultaneous interpretation, longer than previously scheduled.The exchanges are comprehensive, profound, and candid, as well as constructive and of strategic importance.”