TOKYO — Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to hold his first in-person meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday, the latest in a series of summits that appeared aimed at calming tensions with U.S. allies.
The consultations between the leaders of the Asia’s two largest economies will be the first of their sort in three years and come days after Joe Biden’s own discussions with Xi. The U.S. president expressed confidence after the talks that the countries could avoid a “new Cold War.”
The summit will be held on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Thailand. It is expected to start Thursday evening, local time, Kyodo News reported.
