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Representative image | Photo Credit: AP Recent efforts by the Biden administration to engage with Beijing have been a little short of a disaster. A visit by deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman in July was met with two Chinese lists of demands for US policy changes. John Kerry, Biden’s climate change envoy, travelled to Beijing a month later and received a clear message that the cooperation he sought on global warming was not going to happen due to US hostility. Washington’s hope of a leadership summit between Biden and China President Xi Jinping appears improbable, though they may hold...
