Takeaways from President Biden’s long-awaited meeting with China’s Xi Jinping

President Joe Biden greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate outside San Francisco. (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON — It was a meeting a year in the making.

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping sat down together on Wednesday just outside of San Francisco, where Asian leaders gathered for an annual summit. It was almost exactly one year since their last encounter in Bali, Indonesia, on the sidelines of another global gathering.