Beijing Signaling To The U.S. That Chinese President Xi Does Not Want To Meet President Biden At The G20

U.S. President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, speaks virtually with Chinese leader Xi Jinping from the White House in Washington, U.S. November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst  

Politico: Beijing backpedaling on planned Biden-Xi meeting at G-20  

Chinese officials are stonewalling on an agenda for the meeting in protest over Biden's recent actions against the country. 

Chinese government officials are stonewalling U.S. efforts to solidify a long-planned face-to-face meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Bali next month. 

Beijing won’t engage with U.S. officials trying to draft an agenda for the meeting, according to a person familiar with the planning — a move that could prevent it from happening at all.  

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Update: China Not Engaging US To Solidify Plans For Biden-Xi Meeting At G20 Summit - Reports (UrduPoint)  

WNU Editor: My Chinese contacts tell me that Chinese President Xi has lost confidence in dealing with US President Biden. I know in one of recent phone calls everything went downhill .... In Phone Call Chinese President Xi Issues Blunt Warning To President Biden Over Taiwan: 'Play With Fire And You Will Get Burned' (July 28m 2022).