Financial Times – Demetri Sevastopulo and Tom Mitchell / Biden urges Xi not to allow competition to ‘veer into conflict’ Joe Biden has told Xi Jinping that their countries must not allow competition to “veer into conflict” at the start of...

The Guardian – Julian Borger and Vincent Ni / Biden and Xi prepare for virtual summit amid rising tensions Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will hold a virtual summit on Monday intended to halt, or at least slow down, the downward spiral...

South China Morning Post – Josephine Ma and William Zheng / Chinese Communist Party resolution cements Xi Jinping’s leadership, putting him on par with Mao, and paves way for legacy-defining third term Xi Jinping has been hailed as the creator...

Financial Times – Leslie Hook / US and China pledge co-operation over ‘existential’ climate crisis The US and China made a rare joint declaration to co-operate on climate change, which the Chinese special envoy to the UN COP26 summit...

Financial Times – Lauren Fedor / Trump loses bid to deny White House records to January 6 panel A federal judge has denied Donald Trump’s bid to stop a congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol from accessing White...

Politico – Jan Cielski / The politics behind Poland’s border crisis There’s no doubt Poland faces a legitimate emergency. Thousands of migrants aiming to come across the border with Belarus have set up camp in the damp birch forests that...

The Guardian – Vincent Ni / Xi Jinping to lay out vision for China’s future – and past – at key meeting A meeting of hundreds of members of China’s political elite, which is expected to further consolidate the power of president Xi Jinping, has...

Financial Times – Guy Chazan, Leila Aboud and Clive Cookson / Rising European infections spark fears of resurgent pandemic Europe is experiencing a surge in coronavirus infections to levels not seen in months, in a development that is alarming...