Taiwan envoy says he's hopeful Biden-Xi meeting will reduce tensions in the Asia-Pacific region

US President Joe Biden is heading back to Washington after attending the annual summit for Asian leaders that was hosted this year in San Francisco.

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00:00 Tension between Washington and Beijing appears to be easing.

00:05 U.S. President Joe Biden met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the

00:09 Summit for Asia-Pacific Leaders, where they pledged greater cooperation on artificial

00:14 intelligence, climate change and curbing fentanyl shipments to the U.S.

00:20 There was group consensus on trade and economic issues.

00:23 We're going to see more technological change in the next 10 years than we've seen in the

00:28 last 50 years.

00:29 I don't think that's hyperbole.

00:30 I think we're going to see that changing so rapidly.

00:34 Together we have to make sure it changes for the better.

00:39 With China pledging to stem the flow of ingredients for fentanyl, Biden called on Mexico's president

00:44 to stop the drug's production in labs there and trafficking into the U.S.

00:49 The forum heard division between members over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, but there was

00:54 no mention of either in the final joint communique.