Biden to meet with China’s Xi at Peru summit

WASHINGTON — Retiring President Biden will meet one last time with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of this week’s APEC summit in Peru — as President-elect Donald Trump threatens to slap new tariffs on Chinese goods and force the Asian nation to pay “reparations” for the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden, 81, and Xi, 71, will meet on Saturday in Lima — and administration officials say the US president plans to take a victory lap on a reduction in fentanyl overdose deaths this year after Xi privately agreed to restrict shipments of the lethal opioid last year at another Biden sitdown. More than 223,000 US residents died from fentanyl and related compounds during Biden’s first three years in office, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, and Republican politicians slammed Biden early in his term for not doing more to halt the flow. President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet for a final time in Lima, Peru, on Saturday. REUTERS “We expect the president will use the opportunity to take stock of efforts to responsibly manage competition over the last four years and how the two countries have advanced areas of shared interest,” a US official...