What Biden will tell Xi during his first sitdown with the Chinese leader


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President Biden is expected to address mounting tensions over Taiwan in his first face-to-face meeting with President Xi Jinping of China Monday but is unlikely to press his counterpart on issues that have killed more than 1 million Americans — the origins of COVID-19 and fentanyl production. “I don’t expect in any meaningful way they could make progress on either topic,” said Victoria Coates, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “Xi is just not going to admit any culpability.” The sitdown in Bali, Indonesia, ahead of the G20 summit, comes amid slumping relations between the two global superpowers, dragged...