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Is Biden tired of winning? He might be after summit with Xi

Source: AP

Given the state of US-China relations over much of the last year, it wasn’t always a given that President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping would have a face-to-face meeting when Mr Xi travelled to the US for this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.

The last time the leaders of the world’s two largest economies sat face-to-face had been on the sidelines of the 2022 Group of 20 leaders’ summit in Bali, Indonesia last November.

At the time, tensions between the US and China were already high following then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to visit , which so angered Beijing that Chinese officials pulled out of a host

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