President Joe Biden is set to depart Thursday for a three-country tour to Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesia.
, followed by a longer visit to Cambodia for a pair of conferences with southeast Asian nations.
Biden often speaks of his long relationship with Xi and as president has spoken with Xi five times - but never in person. "What I want to do with him, when we talk," Biden told reporters Wednesday, "is lay out what the - what kind - what each of our red lines are, understand what he believes to be in the critical national interest of China, what I know to be the critical interest of the United States, and determine whether or not they conflict with one another. And if they do, how do we resolve it and how to work it out.
But the UN has said the world is far off track from the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and countries are expected to focus on how to make up that gap. Areleased Tuesday from a coalition of local leaders and private businesses found Biden's law, combined with state and local action, could meet the president's goal to reduce U.S. emissions by 50% to 52% by 2030, as long as current policy trends continue.
Other world leaders, too, will likely try to understand what impact the vote in America may have on their countries.
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