Xi and Biden to seek uneasy truce in talks this week

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Like Australia, Beijing has dramatically shifted its rhetoric towards the United States recently as Mr Xi attempts to repair strained relations with western trading partners at a time when more foreign capital is leaving China than coming in. The meeting will reportedly last for four hours. “Xi is likely to go into the meeting regretting his administration’s previous misjudgement of the Biden administration’s mettle, and his premature challenges to a wounded but unbroken superpower,” Australia China Relations Institute researcher Corey Lee Bell wrote in an article published this week. Experts say Mr Xi’s priority would be to try to convince...