US President Joe Biden is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Saturday in what is believed to be their last face-to-face talk as presidents, according to a senior American official.

The long-awaited meeting would take place on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, for their third in-person meeting of the Biden presidency.

Biden is the only American president to have not visited China while in office since the normalisation of bilateral ties in 1979.

The meeting would take place as uncertainties swirl about the future of Sino-American relations following the election of former president Donald Trump, who has vowed to impose 100 per cent tariffs on goods from China.

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Upon taking office in 2021, Biden kept much of the hardline policies on China that Trump introduced as president in 2017, including tariffs on mainland products.

Nevertheless, Biden has repeatedly stressed the importance of managing competition with America’s top rival, even as he took measures to restrict Chinese companies’ access to sensitive technologies in the US.

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