U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday referred to the "possibility" of meeting face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month in San Francisco.
"There is no such meeting set up, but it is a possibility," Biden told reporters at the White House, when asked about the prospects of a bilateral meeting with the Chinese leader on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
Biden's brief statement, without further elaboration, came after he made remarks on the U.S. economy.
He will chair this year's gathering of the multilateral economic forum, slated for mid-November in the major West Coast city. Despite tensions over a number of issues, the United States and China have resumed direct contacts between senior officials in recent months as they explore the possibility of the first one-on-one talks in a year between Biden and Xi by the end of the year.
