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Home / China / Xi and Biden meet amid a fracturing world order
China, Asia

November 15, 2023

Xi and Biden meet amid a fracturing world order

“To make genuine and lasting improvements in bilateral ties and steer the relationship away from militarized rivalry would,” observed Lyle Goldstein, director of Asia engagement for the Defense Priorities think tank, in an email, “require not a brief meeting on the sidelines of a multilateral summit, but instead the sustained, high-level attention of an annual U.S.-China summit lasting at least two full days.”

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