 Hundreds of protesters clashed ahead of President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival to San Francisco, Biden arrived at San Francisco International Airport and she landed shortly after. The Chinese president was welcomed on the tarmac by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, California Governor Gavin Newsom and U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, hundreds of onlookers gathered on the leader's motorcade route, some holding signs that read NCCP, the initials of Chinese Communist Party, others held Taiwanese and Tibetan flags, while some waved huge Chinese flags. A sign that read warmly welcome President Xi Jinping was affixed to concrete bollards, dozens of pro-China, and a few anti-China demonstrators had also gathered near the Moscon Center, the venue where many APEC meetings were being held, Biden and Xi have not spoken in a year. Their last meeting was at the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia last fall.