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US president Joe Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ week in Woodside, California. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP Xi Jinping's meeting with Joe Biden in Woodside, south of San Francisco, was never going to produce a breakthrough or a reset in the relationship between China and the United States. But it has restored channels of communication between Beijing and Washington that China severed after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in August last year. The two leaders agreed to resume formal contacts between the Pentagon and the People's Liberation…
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