A highly anticipated meeting between US President Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping concluded on 14 November with both leaders expressing an openness to repairing the relationship. On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia the two leaders discussed the war in Ukraine, tension in the Taiwan Strait and North Korea’s missile tests. Not only for their complicated rivalry, but the meeting is being observed keenly because an earlier diplomatic encounter between the two nations had turned into a sparring contest in front of reporters. At the Anchorage meeting last year, ill-tempered talks involved Secretary of...