Biden, Xi to speak as US-China relations face ‘crossroads’ over Russian invasion of Ukraine

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden took workplace framing this second in geopolitics as a battle between autocracy and democracy – casting China as the chief authoritarian threat on the world stage. 

Almost a 12 months later, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has magnified the looming query of China’s position on the earth and it has worsened tensions between Washington and Beijing.