When President Biden met President Xi Jinping on Wednesday on the edges of Silicon Valley, there was a subtle but noticeable shift in the power dynamic between two countries that have spent most of the past few years denouncing, undercutting and imposing sanctions on each other. For the first time in years, a Chinese leader desperately needed a few things from the United States. Mr. Xi’s list at the summit started with a revival of American financial investments in China and a break in the technology export controls that have,...

Agreements between Beijing and Washington may have been touted by President Joe Biden following talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping but one China expert has told Newsweek that the countries remain on a "confrontational course."

Biden said in a press conference that talks in San Francisco on Wednesday yielded progress in areas that included tackling the trafficking of fentanyl, restoring communication lines between the Chinese and U.S. militaries and co-operation on slowing methane emissions and increasing renewable energy by 2030.

President Joe Biden's reiteration that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is "a dictator" has been rebuked by a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson. The two leaders spoke for about four hours in a highly anticipated meeting, their first in a year, in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, or APEC. Biden and Xi agreed to restart military-to-military communications, which Beijing cut off more than a year ago in protest of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, and also came together on a deal to work together...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared to have an unfavorable reaction when President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he still believes Chinese President Xi Jinping is a dictator. "Well, look, he is," Biden said after the two world leaders met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in San Francisco in an effort to ease U.S.-China tensions. CUSTOMERS SURPRISED TO DISCOVER THEIR RENTAL IS AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE "He's a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country...

Meeting with President Biden for the first time in a year, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, reiterated his determination to unify with Taiwan, but stopped short of mentioning the potential use of force. He denounced what he called futile American efforts at containing China, but also acknowledged that U.S. tech restrictions had taken a toll.

And he broadcast that China had global ambitions for its influence — while also trying to reassure the world that those ambitions did not have to lead to conflict with the United States.