Republicans demand Biden challenge China’s Xi on fentanyl, prisoners

The flags of the United States and China fly from a lamppost in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress urged President Joe Biden to make demands of China’s leader Xi Jinping over detained Americans and other issues when they meet next week in San Francisco, arguing that Washington’s push to engage Beijing had “negligible benefit.” The Biden-Xi meeting around events at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will follow a series of largely unreciprocated U.S. cabinet-level visits to China, as…