Taiwan is supposed to top the plan when US President Joe Biden and Chinese pioneer Xi Jinping meet one week from now - their most memorable in-person experience since Mr. Biden got to work in 2020.
The much-anticipated gathering comes when relations between the two superpowers have especially soured.
This has been fuelled by Beijing's cases over self-controlled Taiwan and its rising confidence in Asia.
The US has answered by limiting admittance to central processor innovation.
That has hit China's product-driven economy which utilizes the tech to make and offer all that from telephones to electric vehicles.
Given the new spike in pressures and way of talking, the world - and America's Asian partners such as India, Japan, and Australia - will be intently watching the gathering booked to occur on Monday in Bali in front of the G20 Culmination.
Mr. Xi has burned through the greater part of the pandemic in China and as of late started voyaging abroad once more.
"I'm certain we'll talk about Taiwan... also, how I need to manage him when we talk is spread out... what every one of our red lines is," Mr. Biden said at a public interview on Thursday after the White House affirmed the gathering.
This way they can "decide if they struggle with each other… and assuming that they do, how to determine and how to resolve it", he said.
Nonetheless, he additionally added that he was not able to "make any basic concessions" about the US strategy on Taiwan.
Beijing sees itself as overseeing the island just like its own domain that should be joined with the central area. Be that as it may, Taiwan sees itself as particular.
Mr. Biden, in contrast to past US presidents, has more than once said the US would shield Taiwan in case of a Chinese attack.
However, the White House has consistently moved back his remarks, demanding that Washington's position of "key uncertainty" - under which it doesn't focus on protecting Taiwan yet, in addition, doesn't preclude the choice - stays unaltered.
In the meantime Mr. Xi has told the Individuals Freedom Armed force (PLA) to "center all energy around battling a conflict... furthermore, assemble the capacity to win", as per state media reports recently.
Mr. Xi is accounted for to have said the military absolute requirement "reinforce military preparation in anticipation of war" since China was in an "unsound and unsure" position.
Strains took off in August when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. China answered with an enormous scope of military activities around the island.
On Thursday the White House said it would brief Taiwan on the aftereffects of the Biden-Xi gathering, with public safety consultant Jake Sullivan saying the point was to cause Taiwan to feel "secure and agreeable" about US support.
In the meantime, China's unfamiliar service said the US ought to cooperate with China to keep away from mistaken assumptions and misjudgments, adding that while it needs harmony with the US, "the Taiwan question" is at the center of its inclinations.
At the Chinese Socialist Faction congress last month, Mr. Xi repeated China's situation with Taiwan where they would "never vow to disavow the utilization of power".
He said they saved the choice of "going to all lengths vital" if "outside powers" disrupted China's cases.
Biden again says the US would safeguard Taiwan against China
What's behind China-Taiwan strains?
The US has for quite some time been navigating a precarious situation over Taiwan. A foundation of its relationship with Beijing is the One China strategy, as per which Washington recognizes just a single Chinese government - in Beijing - and has no conventional binds with Taiwan.
However, it additionally keeps up with close relations with Taiwan and offers arms to it under the Taiwan Relations Act, which expresses that the US should give the island the resources to safeguard itself.