Bill Gates meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping amidst US-China tensions.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, met with President Xi Jinping in China to discuss a drug discovery partnership with Beijing's municipal government. The foundation announced a $50 million donation over the next five years into the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute, which primarily focuses on developing new drugs for infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria. Gates praised China's significant gains in reducing poverty and improving health outcomes and called for China to play an even bigger role in addressing current challenges. The visit comes after visits to China by other prominent tech leaders, such as Elon Musk, and days before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to Beijing.