The polite way to characterize Joe Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping is that it cleared a rather low expectations bar but failed to achieve any new heights for the globe’s most important relationship.

Yet the ways in which US President Biden and Chinese leader Xi left the summit in California’s Santa Cruz mountains, their first in a year, offers more insights than what the men discussed – or didn’t broach – in private.

https://asiatimes.com/2023/11/biden-xi-in-a-half-hearted-rapprochement/