"Xi needs the summit more than Biden does. He needs to show he's respected, that he has stature," said Minxin Pei, a political scientist focusing on China-U.S. ties at Claremont McKenna College. "He's definitely in a worse position than in November of last year."
He experienced the largest street protests since the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations that ended in the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, a response to his deeply unpopular "zero covid" policy.
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