U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed at their first summit in a year on Wednesday to restore military communications between the two countries, even as Mr. Biden went off script by saying he still considered Mr. Xi a “dictator”.
The leaders shook hands and strolled around a garden at a historic California estate during four-hour talks aimed at preventing growing tensions between the world's largest economies from spiralling into conflict.
They also agreed that China would crack down on the production of ingredients for fentanyl, responsible for a deadly epidemic of opioid abuse in the United States, with Mr. Xi saying he "sympathises" with U.S. victims of the deadly drug, which has ravaged communities across the country.
