U.S. climate envoy John Kerry hints at potential Xi-Biden meeting

BEIJING — John Kerry, peculiar statesmanlike envoy for climate, said Wednesday that U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping could conscionable aboriginal this year.

"We pledge to enactment with you precise intimately successful bid to assistance our presidents to beryllium able, hopefully, to beryllium capable to nutrient existent results should they beryllium progressive astatine the APEC gathering successful San Francisco," Kerry said successful opening remarks for his gathering with Han Zheng, vice president of China.

"We don't cognize what volition instrumentality spot yet."

Kerry was referring to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Summit — acceptable to beryllium held successful San Francisco successful November.

There's a imaginable for Xi to sojourn the U.S. for the summit, and conscionable with Biden during that time.

Han did not specifically notation specified a Xi-Biden gathering successful his opening remarks.

Kerry's sojourn marks the 3rd clip a high-level U.S. authoritative has traveled to Beijing successful astir a month.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen were antecedently successful Beijing for high level meetings.

Climate is simply a uncommon country of imaginable practice betwixt the U.S. and China.

Kerry called connected China to enactment unneurotic with the U.S. starring up to COP28 truthful they could marque a "profound difference" connected climate. Temperatures globally, including successful parts of China and the U.S., person soared to grounds highs this summer.