WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted each other with a warm handshake Wednesday as they met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference.
The two leaders last spoke a year ago, and since then, already fraught ties between the nations have been further strained.
Biden and Xi were speaking behind closed doors at the Filoli Historic House and Garden, which features a Georgian revival-style mansion and a formal, English Renaissance-style garden.
The pair opened their face-to-face meeting in the San Francisco Bay area with a solid handshake.
The two leaders made the comments Wednesday after shaking hands in their first face-to-face meeting in more than a year.
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