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full screenBiden and Xi also met during last year’s Apec meeting, when the picture was taken. Photo: Doug Mills/AP/TT
Outgoing US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting in Peru’s capital Lima on Saturday, likely the last meeting between the two leaders before Biden hands over to US President-elect Donald Trump in January.
The two presidents are to meet in connection with a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec).
Biden is then expected to raise the issue of North Korea’s involvement in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and try to get China to use its influence on the North Korean regime so that the situation does not escalate.
Biden on Friday, along with South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, condemned North Korea’s decision to send thousands of troops to Russia to help it repel Ukrainian forces that have entered the Russian border region of Kursk.
Biden called it “a dangerous and destabilizing partnership.”