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US President Joe Biden took the initiative for a virtual summit with China after concerns at the escalating tensions between the two countries over Taiwan and China's accelerating build-up of nuclear warheads. As the Chinese President Xi Jinping has concentrated all powers in himself, Biden felt that it had become necessary to discuss these concerns at the highest level. Given Xi's sensitivities about "mutual respect" (enhanced and equal status for China), the US trying to change China's political system and calling the US-led alliances as "Cold War thinking", Biden told him that the US "does not seek to change China's...
