Biden and Xi meet; Senate to vote on stopgap bill

1. Xi Jinping, China’s president, told Joe Biden that “planet Earth [was] big enough” for the two superpowers, as the leaders sat down in San Francisco. Earlier America and China agreed to work together to boost renewable-energy generation. The countries are the world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. In separate statements they promised to “pursue efforts to triple renewable energy capacity globally by 2030”.