Will US and China be able to lower risks before the new president takes office?

Jake Sullivan's trip, the first by a US national security adviser in eight years, may lay the groundwork for a meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden, and the two leaders have already agreed to talk by phone in the coming weeks. A Xi-Biden summit could benefit both sides, according to Dylan Loh, assistant professor of foreign policy at NTU in Singapore. For Biden, it would cement his foreign policy legacy and allow him to hand over the most consequential relationship "in good stable hands" to the next administration, while for Xi it would be "another foreign policy win" – especially when China is grappling with slow domestic growth and wants to ease international tensions.

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