I wrote a thing for Good Authority about the Biden-Xi summit that happened a little west of the 280 in an estate that I would drive past with some regularity years ago when heading up the peninsula from Stanford to San Francisco (and I suppose on the way back down too).
They met. They ate a (mediocre-looking) lunch. They talked. They put a floor under the world’s most important bilateral relationship.
Go read the piece.
China’s leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden met outside of San Francisco on Wednesday, at the historic Filoli estate. The Biden-Xi meeting, which took place before the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, was the first time in a year the two leaders had talked face to face. Expectations for agreements coming out of the summit are modest. But the meeting itself provides some measure of stability to a vital bilateral relationship at a time when multiple international conflicts are raging.
Thanks! Trying to also push out a climate-centric analysis for Heatmap, but if that comes together, I’ll share it separately.