President Biden and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands as they begin talks in Bali. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 fly over the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in the South China Sea on Tuesday. Seaman Deirdre Marsac/USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) hide caption
Chinese medical experts heading to the Philippines are seen during a ceremony before their departure in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, earlier this month. Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images hide caption
The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, anchored off the coast in Danang, Vietnam on Monday. Linh Pham/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A U.S. Aircraft Carrier Anchors Off Vietnam For The First Time Since The War
President Trump shakes hand with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte during the gala dinner marking ASEAN's 50th anniversary in Manila, Philippines, on Sunday. Athit Perawongmetha/AP hide caption
This photo taken from a U.S. military plane in May shows China's activities at Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Ritchie B. Tongo/AP hide caption
Sun Jianguo (left), from the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, chats with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in May during the ministerial luncheon at the 14th Asia Security Summit in Singapore. Each country has grown increasingly wary of the other's actions and interests in the South China Sea. Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
China's Island-Building Has Neighbors On Edge, But Tensions May Be Easing
Policemen ask people to leave a street near to the Chinese embassy in Hanoi on Sunday. A call for further anti-China protests appeared to have fizzled in the capital, with authorities deploying heavy security around the Chinese embassy and other suspected protest sites. Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Chinese nationals stand by their belongings after crossing to Cambodia from Vietnam at the Bavet international checkpoint in Svay Rieng province, on Thursday. Hundreds of Chinese are fleeing the country as unrest escalates. Samrang Pring/Reuters/Landov hide caption
A Taiwanese bicycle factory in Ho Chi Minh City burns after mobs angered over Chinese moves in the South China Sea mistakenly targeted the facility, thinking it was Chinese owned. Jeff Nesmith/AP hide caption