"The world is facing the biggest transformation of the century, the competition between the countries is getting tougher day by day, and ultimately it is about the competition between different systems," he said in a speech in September 2019.
The talks between the USA and China take place at regular intervals and at slightly different levels with the stated purpose of "handling competition" between the countries.
The world has not seen so many pictures or recordings from the meetings, not after an earlier meeting when security adviser Jake Sullivan and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi started arguing before the journalists had left the room.
Outraged anti-American propaganda
From the previous meeting between Xi and Biden, there are only dumb pictures where they look stuck together.
A few days ago, Yang and Sullivan met again, and the seven-hour conversation is described as "intense" by American representatives.
No pictures came from there.
The anti-American propaganda in China is bitter.
The United States is a cruel, ugly, racist world police force that starts color revolutions in other countries and plays the Cold War.
Above all, the United States is shamelessly hypocritical.
China and Russia, on the other hand, have a "friendship without borders".
It says a 5,000-word manifesto on the Kremlin's website that President Xi and President Putin released a few weeks ago, before the Olympics.
Since then, many have wondered how boundless the Sino-Russian friendship really is.
Is there a limit to helping Russia militarily in Ukraine?
Or by supporting them in the UN?
Or to follow the sanctions of the West?
China's strategic interests are conflicting
The meeting today was held after information from the US administration was published in several media that Russia has asked for help from China.
Including military equipment.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian dismissed it as "disinformation".
China has also not supported Russia in the UN General Assembly or in the Security Council.
However, they have abstained.
The experts also seem to agree that China will follow the West's economic sanctions to a large extent.
China can still support Russia financially, through trade that is not affected by the sanctions.
During the meeting, Biden tried to get Xi Jinping to put pressure on Russia to end the war, according to information from the White House.
But there you can imagine that there is another limit.
China's strategic interests are conflicting, but it tends to maintain a central Chinese foreign policy doctrine: one must not interfere in the domestic affairs of sovereign states.
That principle applies to Ukraine as well, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said.
But China's strategic interests (according to the Communist Party) are certainly not served by the unification of Western countries into a community of values around democracy.
And as icing on the cake, China wants raw materials, fossil fuels and ends up in the Arctic.
Xi: The United States and China must shoulder their responsibilities
At today's meeting, Xi also said that countries have a responsibility not to let their conflicts end up on the battlefield, and that the United States and China must shoulder their responsibility for peace and tranquility in the world.
But there have been no pictures from the meeting yet as I write this.
The news anchor on the state television channel CCTV only refers to statements from the meeting, and says that the relationship between China and the USA is facing a decisive time.
Hope it was a nice meeting and that they stayed together.
And took a picture together.