President Biden and China's Xi Jinping shake hands, say they'll manage "differences" at Bali meeting

With tension high between the United States and China, President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met in person on Monday for the first time since Mr. Biden took office. The leaders of the world's two biggest economies started their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, with a handshake and a stated aim to prevent their countries' differences from escalating into conflict.

"As leaders of our two nations, we share a responsibility, in my view, to show that China and the United States can manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming anything ever near conflict, and to find ways to work together on urgent global issues that require our mutual cooperation," Mr. Biden said at the opening of the meeting.

Xi said that while the two leaders had met via videoconference over the past few years, there was no replacement for in person discussions.