In November 2022, President Joe Biden and Chinese authoritarian leader Xi Jinping met in Bali during the G20 summit, an event that writers here at RedState covered extensively (see here or here, and find more at the link above).

One thing we definitely covered was Biden's ducking a planned dinner with the other world leaders and calling an early lid -- something that the White House failed to be transparent about. Still no word on what other "matters" were more urgent during an international conference. (see Joe Biden Sparks Concern After Bowing out of G20 'Leaders' Event, White House Won’t Explain Why).

Now, the Biden Administration has announced the two leaders will meet up again in November, but in the U.S:

President Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping next Wednesday, on Nov. 15, in the San Francisco Bay area, the White House announced Friday. The president and the U.S. will work on reopening important military communications channels that have been cut off, managing competition and addressing security issues.  

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement that Mr. Biden and Xi "will discuss issues in the U.S.-[People's Republic of China] bilateral relationship, the continued importance of maintaining open lines of communication, and a range of regional and global issues."

This will be Biden's and Xi's second time meeting in person, and the seventh "interaction" with Biden in the Oval Office:

This will be the two leaders' seventh interaction during Mr. Biden's presidency and the pair's second in-person meeting. In a briefing with reporters, senior administration officials said the U.S. realizes the increased tensions between the U.S. and China have altered their relationship and shifted key priorities for the meeting of the two presidents.

The focus of the U.S. in the meeting, according to WH officials, will include the scourge of fentanyl manufactured in China pouring across our southern border, along with securing better communication in the wake of Chinese military provocation toward the U.S. and our allies in the region. Several recent stories have detailed close calls with U.S. aircraft and ships, and aggressive actions by China -- prompting Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin to urge the Chinese to treat such incursions in the Taiwan Strait "more seriously."

There's also the Middle Kingdom's concerning relationship with Iran, which the Biden Administration says it will stress should not lead China to get entangled in the Israel-Hamas war and beyond in the Middle East:

Citing China's "burgeoning relationship" with Iran, Mr. Biden is expected to "underscore" that it is "essential that Iran not seek to escalate or spread violence in the Middle East, and to warn quite clearly that if Iran undertakes provocative actions anywhere, that the United States is prepared to respond and respond promptly," one of the officials explained.  

Another close relationship of China's has implications for the US' relationship with them; that's with Russia. As my colleague Streiff noted in a preview of the G20 in 2022, President Vladimir Putin did not attend the conference.

The report on the upcoming meet-up also mentioned U.S. hopes to warn Xi against any meddling in two elections in 2024 -- namely those in Taiwan and the United States. 

You have to imagine that U.S. officials will broach a sticky subject: China's "targeted intelligence gathering campaign" -- via hackers -- against U.S. government computers, including the email accounts of the U.S. Ambassador to China and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

One topic of conversation might become awkward: the location of the meeting between Biden and Xi, San Francisco. After now-California Governor Gavin Newsom's recent trip to China, as my colleague Bog Hoge wrote, the Chinese media mocked Newsom's hometown, calling it a "garbage city."