The Biden-Xi summit is on thanks to a trilateral effort to save face

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Frank Ching is a Hong Kong-based journalist. After months of intense diplomacy, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Oct. 31 that U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping when the Chinese leader is expected to visit San Francisco to take part in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum later this month. And while Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin warned the next day that there was still work to be done, he did say that the two countries had “agreed to work together for a meeting between the two heads of state.” Neither...