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will rippley is there as well and joins me now live.us in on the agenda priorities for the president. >> reporter: yeah, tonight he'll give his opening remarks. they'll have the gala and give his remarks to the prime minister, the typical first day events. but the big agenda takes off tomorrow here for president biden when he meet with two key u.s. allies in the region, the prime minister of japan and the president of south korea. they're going to be talking about president biden's upcoming face-to-face bilateral meeting in bali at the g20 with the chinese leader xi jinping. this is very big deal. biden has met xi many times over the decade of his political career, but this is the first time of his precedsidency, and y have a lot to talk about. he's in this region and traveling to the g20 really with the perception of almost unchecked power, from the viewpoint of those outside of china certainly. president biden is actually coming into this region better than expected and biden's message ahead of those mid-terms was about defending and

our own will rippley in cam bonia where president biden will attend the asean summit of southeast asiane hours ahead. good to see you there, will. an important trip for the u.s. president. what are going to be his priorities there? >> reporter: yeah, you know, he's really arriving here in asia on the heels of a much better than expected showing in the u.s. mid-terms where he really hammered in that message of preserving democracy in the united states. that's certainly a message that rings true here in this region where there's this growing narrative of authoritarian countries ie china and the united states and at odds with each other. and here in cambodia this is one economy on the front lines of that because yesterday you had the cambodian prime minister eat wg the chinese premier. and i was walking around here yesterday, so much chinese investment. china announcing even more infrastructure investment in the coming years ahead. so they're pumping lots and lots of money and as a result you have cambodia coming out publicly and saying they support the chinese position on taiwan and presi