US President Joe Biden and China President Xi Jinping are planning to hold a ‘virtual bilateral meeting’ by the end of 2021, informed the White House. There is an ‘agreement in principle’ for the virtual bilateral meeting, as per media reports. The virtual bilateral meeting between Biden and Jinping was announced during the meeting of US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan with China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Zurich.

As per the media reports, the closed-door high-level meeting between Sullivan and Yang meant for improving the communication between the top two economies lasted for more than six hours. Both met for the first time after the unpleasant public grievances episode in Alaska in March 2021. The meeting was described as the follow-up to the September 9 call between US President Biden and Chinese President Jinping.