Biden failed to secure summit with China's Xi -FT

U.S. President Joe Biden proposed a first face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a call last week.

However, The Financial Times reported on Tuesday Biden was unable to secure it.

Biden later told reporters it was not true that he was turned down by his Chinese counterpart.

A source briefed on last week’s 90-minute call confirmed with Reuters, however, that the report was accurate, and that "Xi apparently intimated that the tone and atmosphere of the relationship needed to be improved first."

China’s embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.