When the world’s two most powerful men finally decided to sit down together last month, they were both coming off of major domestic victories. U.S. President Joe Biden, after corralling lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, had just signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, the largest of its kind in decades. And Xi Jinping, certainly with less corralling, had just been enshrined by the Chinese Communist Party as one of the country’s most revered leaders, on par with Mao Zedong and Deng Xi
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