Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden aren't friends of the 'friend-shoring' type. Photo: Asia Times files / Pool / Twitter / Screengrab

The 800-pound gorilla in the room when Joe Biden goes toe-to-toe with Xi Jinping on November 15 will be the extreme political dysfunction in Washington that is threatening America’s last AAA credit rating. As US President Biden angles to remind Chinese leader Xi who’s boss in San Francisco, partisan brinkmanship 3,000 miles away in Washington […]

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