Chinese officials are making plans for President Xi Jinping's first face-to-face summit with U.S. President Joe Biden since Biden took office, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the preparations.
The summit could come on the fringes of meetings to be held in Southeast Asia in November, the paper said.
The report emerged as tensions between the two countries rise over Taiwan following U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island earlier this month. It was the first such visit by a House speaker in 25 years as Pelosi aimed to show support for Taiwan, which Beijing views as its own.