LIMA – President Joe Biden He is expected to have his last meeting with the Chinese leader Xi JinpingTo urge North Korea to deter deepens its support For Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Saturday’s talks on the sidelines of the annual sessions Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit Just over two months until Biden leaves office in Peru, making way for Republican President Donald Trump. It will be Biden’s Final check-in with Xi — someone the Democrat sees as his most important colleague on the world stage.

With the latest meeting, officials said Biden would call Xi Accelerate Chinese participation To prevent further escalation of an already dangerous moment with North Korea.

Biden, together with South Korean President Yoon Seok Yul and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, on Friday. North Korean leader condemns Kim Jong Un’s decision Moscow plans to send thousands of troops to help Russia repel Ukrainian forces that have seized territory in the Kursk border region.

Biden called it “dangerous and destabilizing collaboration.”

White House officials also expressed disappointment that Beijing, which provides the vast majority of North Korea’s trade, has not done more to rein in Pyongyang.

Biden, Yoon and Ishiba spent much of their 50-minute meeting focused on the issue and agreed that “this destabilizing cooperation in the region is not in Beijing’s interest,” according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Discuss their private conversations.

The North Koreans also provided Russia with artillery and other munitions, according to U.S. and South Korean intelligence officials. And the US, Japan and South Korea have voiced alarm over Pyongyang’s increasing interference tempo of ballistic missile tests.

Kim ordered test drills ahead of this month’s US elections and claims progress on new construction efforts Ability to strike US mainland.

Biden and Xi have much to discuss beyond North Korea: Indirect support from China to Russiahuman rights issues, technology and Taiwan, the self-governing democracy that Beijing claims as its own.

there is also too much uncertainty About what the future holds for the US-China relationship under Trump, who campaigned on the promise of raising taxes 60% tariffs About Chinese imports.

Already, many American companies, including Nike and eyewear retailer Warby Parker, are diversifying their sources away from China. Shoe brand Steve Madden, Cut imports from China up to 45% next year.

“When Xi meets with Biden, some of his audience is not just the White House or the U.S. government,” said Victor Cha, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “This is about American CEOs and ongoing U.S. investments or trying to renew U.S. investments in China and trying to get rid of the perception that there is a hostile business environment in China.”

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden administration officials will advise the Trump team that managing the intense rivalry with Beijing will likely be the most important foreign policy challenge they will face.

Administration officials worry that if either side miscalculates, tensions between China and Taiwan could escalate into all-out war, with disastrous consequences for the world.

Sullivan said the Trump administration will have to deal with the Chinese military’s frequent harassment of its regional neighbors.

Conflict between Philippine and Chinese coast guards Issues in the disputed South China Sea have become a persistent problem. Chinese coast guard ships also regularly approach Japanese-controlled East China Sea islands near Taiwan.

Ishiba met with Xi on Friday. Later, Japan’s prime minister said he told Xi that he was “extremely concerned about the situation in the East China Sea and the increasing activities of the People’s Liberation Army.”

The White House worked for months to arrange Saturday’s meeting between Xi and Biden; It’s something the Democrat would love to do before leaving office in January.

Sullivan traveled to Beijing in late August to meet with his Chinese counterpart and also We sat with Xi. Beijing agreed to the meeting earlier this week.

This is a big moment for Biden, who has completed more than 50 years in politics. He saw his relationship with Xi as one of the most important on the international stage and made great efforts to develop this relationship.

Biden and Xi first got to know each other during their trips to the United States and China while he was vice president; Both said these interactions left a lasting impact.

But there have been constant difficult moments over the last four years.

FBI this week Offered new details of federal investigation into chinese government Efforts to infiltrate US telecommunications networks. Preliminary findings reveal “large and significant” situation cyber espionage campaign was intended to steal information from Americans working in government and politics.

US intelligence officials also evaluated China Sales to Russia increased Machine tools, microelectronics and other technologies that Moscow uses to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weapons war against Ukraine.

Tensions flared last year after Biden ordered the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon crossing the United States.

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Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed.