• The high-stakes discussion between Vice President Biden and Chinese leader Xi has now been going on for three hours.
• The meeting started at 5:41 p.m., which is 4:41 a.m. Eastern Time.
• US officials said there wasn’t a set time limit but suggested they expected the meeting to run “a couple hours”.

The high-stakes discussion between Vice President Biden and Chinese leader Xi has now been going on for three hours. The meeting started at 5:41 p.m. local time, which is 4:41 a.m. Eastern Time.

Ahead of the meeting, US officials said there wasn’t a set time limit but suggested they expected the meeting to run “a couple hours.”

“I think it’ll be a couple hours. Could go longer than that, might not,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One en route Bali.

According to the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, the high-stakes discussion that took place between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US Vice President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali has concluded at 8:48 p.m. local time on Monday.

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