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BEIJING \u2014 U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday outside of San Francisco in their first face-to-face encounter in a year.<\/p>\n

The summit, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, followed efforts between the U.S. and China to increase high-level communication amid continued tensions.<\/p>\n

“We have to ensure that competition does not veer into conflict,”\u00a0Biden\u00a0said at the start of the summit. “Critical global challenges we face, from climate change to counternarcotics to artificial intelligence, demand our joint efforts.”<\/p>\n

Biden and Xi were widely expected to discuss issues such as curbing fentanyl flows into the U.S., safe use of artificial intelligence, and U.S. restrictions on Chinese access to high-end tech.<\/p>\n

“For two large countries like China and the United States, turning their back on each other is not an option,” Xi said in his opening remarks. “Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Signals of goodwill between the countries have picked up in recent days.<\/p>\n

In the hours before the planned summit, the U.S. and China reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate on climate issues.<\/p>\n

More direct flights between the U.S. and China\u00a0are resuming\u00a0from a low base.<\/p>\n

Last month, Chinese commodity importers signed the first agreements since 2017 to buy U.S. agricultural products in bulk, according to a news release from the American embassy in Beijing.<\/p>\n

China’s Ministry of Commerce last week announced it was gathering information in an effort to\u00a0address unequal treatment of foreign businesses\u00a0in China compared with treatment of domestic firms \u2014 which has been a longstanding business complaint.<\/p>\n

The Chinese government may also use the summit as an opportunity to announce a commitment to resuming purchases of Boeing