President Joe Biden will meet President Xi Jinping of China just outside of San Francisco on Wednesday. The much-anticipated meeting comes on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The nature of the Chinese Communist system and Xi’s escalating paranoia mean that leader-to-leader exchanges are of crucial value. Biden’s priority should be to disabuse Xi of his misconceptions about U.S. policy.

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