Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person for the first time in a year on Wednesday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.
"The president is determined to see the re-establishment of military-to-military ties because he believes it's in the U.S. national security interest," Sullivan said in an interview with CBS
Sullivan said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Biden would seek to "advance the ball" on military ties during his meeting with Xi, but declined to provide further details.
The Biden-Xi meeting is expected to cover global issues from the Israel-Hamas war to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, North Korea's ties with Russia, Taiwan, the Indo-Pacific, human rights, fentanyl production, artificial intelligence, as well as "fair" trade and economic relations, a senior U.S. official said.
I’m on the record as being a San Francisco stan. Ignore all the liberalism and techbro crap - it’s still the most beautiful city in the US by a good margin. Walking around the city during the day is a genuinely nice experience.
But yeah, after dark it’s like the whole city shuts down. I mean, yeah obviously it doesn’t literally close up but I’ve walked through Chinatown, down Market, through Russian Hill etc at night and it’s almost disturbingly empty of bustling night life you’d expect from a city like that.