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Biden’s San Francisco Summit: Evaluating Claims, Concerns, and International Agreements

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Biden’s San Francisco Summit: Evaluating Claims, Concerns, and International Agreements
U.S. President Joe Biden looks on during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, Calif., on Nov. 15, 2023. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Steven W. Mosher
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According to President Joe Biden, his two hours together with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San Francisco was time well spent. Xi, he said, had agreed to resume high-level military communications, to reduce fentanyl exports to the United States, and to not militarize artificial intelligence.

Steven W. Mosher
Steven W. Mosher
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Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.” A former National Science Foundation fellow, he studied human biology at Stanford University under famed geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. He holds advanced degrees in Biological Oceanography, East Asian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. One of America’s leading China watchers, he was selected in 1979 by the National Science Foundation to be the first American social scientist to do field research in China.
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