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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden's top national security advisers will meet with Chinese diplomats on Thursday in a high-stakes showdown that could determine whether Washington and Beijing are headed for a "new Cold War" or a diplomatic thaw. The Biden administration has signaled it will take a hard line when the two sides sit down behind closed doors in Anchorage, Ala., for their first meeting. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security adviser, will lead the talks with their Chinese counterparts. On the agenda: China's mass internment of Uyghur Muslims, its crackdown on democracy activists in...
