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    How US-China ties have crumbled – and where Xi and Biden could rebuild

    by Ann Scott Tyson Nov 13, 2023 4 minutes

    When Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets U.S. President Joe Biden in San Francisco on Wednesday, it will be first and foremost an opportunity for the two heads of state to show the world – and their own people – that they can responsibly manage relations between the two superpowers.

    Asian countries’ leaders, especially, will be eager for signs that China and the United States are making progress in stabilizing relations at the Biden-Xi meeting, to be held on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. A regional forum with 21 members mainly in Asia and the Americas, APEC accounts for nearly half the world’s trade and about 62% of its gross domestic product.

    Messrs. Xi and Biden no doubt have much to discuss, from regional tensions –

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