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Elbridge Colby on the Stakes of the Biden-Xi Summit
Xi Jinping disembarks from a plane in San Francisco. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
And reflections from Jamie Kirchick on the rally for Israel in D.C.
By Oliver Wiseman
11.15.23 — U.S. Politics
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Today’s Biden-Xi summit has already achieved the seemingly impossible: forcing San Francisco leaders to clean up the city’s streets. (California governor Gavin Newsom put it succinctly: “I know folks say, ‘Oh, they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.’ That’s true, because it’s true.”) But beyond the shini…

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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