Talks between Chinese and U.S. leaders in mid-November will help to restart working-level dialogues on issues like trade disputes, but they will fail to address the root cause of escalating U.S.-China tensions and augur little progress on key policy disputes, including climate change mitigation. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed during an Oct. 31 press conference that U.S. President Joe Biden would meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit, due to be held in San Francisco, California, from Nov. 15-17. This will be the two leaders' first in-person meeting since they last talked on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit in Bali, Indonesia, in November 2022.