HEADLINES 11/15/2022

BIDEN HAS ‘VERY BLUNT’ MEETING WITH CHINA’S XI

President Joe Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping finished their first in-person meeting Monday with both leaders expressing a willingness to turn down the temperature.

  • Biden and Xi began their highly anticipated meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia.
  • U.S.-China relations have fallen to their lowest point in decades amid tensions over tech competition, cybersecurity, China’s support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Taiwanand China’s military build-up.

ZELENSKYY DECLARES ‘BEGINNING OF THE END’ OF WAR

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise visit to Kherson on Friday, days after his troops recaptured the strategically important regional capital from Russia.

  • “This is the beginning of the end of the war,” Zelenskyy told reporters. “We are step by step coming to all the temporarily occupied territories.”
  • Just weeks before Russia’s latest embarrassing retreat, President Vladimir Putin had proclaimed the annexation of Kherson and declared it would be part of Russia forever.