COLOMBO (News 1st) – US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met for their first official meeting on Monday (14) in Bali.

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping sat down at their tables, flanked by officials on each side. Biden and Xi both did not wear masks, while the other officials in the room all wear masks.

Earlier, US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shook hands for the first time as leaders in their first in-person meeting since Biden took office nearly two years ago.

Meeting on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Bali, Indonesia, the two leaders greeted each other with a firm, long handshake, both smiling, standing in front of a row of US and Chinese flags.

They smiled for cameras and Xi — through a translator — appeared to say, "Good to see you."

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