Biden’s quiet re-engagement with China could stop Middle East war


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Three US cabinet secretaries — the US secretaries of state, Treasury and commerce — have been to China since mid-June. None yielded swooning deliverables. Yet these were three more visits than in Biden’s previous two and a half years combined. Wang’s trip will be the first visit to Washington by a Chinese foreign minister since before the pandemic. It is likely to pave the way for Xi Jinping’s attendance at the APEC summit in San Francisco next month — the first trip to the US by China’s president in almost seven years. Biden’s record has also been uneven. America’s shooting...