"I'm committed to keeping the lines of communications open between you and me personally, but also our governments across the board," President Biden told China's President Xi on Monday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali. The U.S. now considers China its biggest strategic and economic competitor, and experts worry the relationship is teetering on the edge. “China-U.S. tensions are at a pretty big boiling point,” says Erin Murphy, a senior fellow in the economic program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Although the leaders have spoken five times by phone or video conference since Biden took office in 2021 amid the coronavirus pandemic, this is their first in-person meeting with both men leading their nations. "They're not going to settle all of the world's problems in this meeting," said Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee. Read more at our link in bio.