When Chinese President Xi Jinping beamed into the White House on Monday evening for a virtual summit with US President Joe Biden, the two men needed no introduction.
“We’ve spent an awful lot of time talking to one another, and I hope we can have a candid conversation tonight as well,” Biden said as the talks got underway, with Xi’s visage broadcast on a pair of television screens.
From his seat in a cavernous room inside the Great Hall…