PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — President Joe Biden will confront some of the world's toughest foreign policy challenges as he returns to Asia on Saturday in the hopes of convincing the region's leaders to join U.S. efforts to counter the rise of China.
Biden's back-to-back-to-back global summits in Asia begin on Saturday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the East Asia summits, where he'll make the case for strengthening U.S. regional ties in an effort to blunt China's power and influence there.
Then he heads to Bali, Indonesia, for the meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized nations. There, he is expected to meet with China's president, Xi Jinping, amid heightened U.S.-China acrimony over new U.S. export controls on the sale of microchip technology, Taiwan's sovereignty and Beijing's support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
