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Presidents Xi and Biden met at the Apec conference in San Francisco. White House/Zuma/Alamy

What Xi got out of his meeting with Biden

China’s president Xi Jinping went to the recent summit with Joe Biden hoping to get some relief for the troubled Chinese economy.
Old acquaintances: Charles Michel with Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2016 when Michel was pirme minister of Belgium. EPA/Kenzaburo Fukuhara/pool

Western leaders are divided over the future of relations with China

Charles Michel, president of the European Council, will meet the Chinese leader at a time of tension over European and US relations with Beijing.
Severe air pollution can speed up neurodegeneration when the brain is at the peak of its development — during childhood. Pictured here, a child in Beijing. (Shutterstock)

Air pollution in global megacities linked to children’s cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s and death

Investigation of the brains of children and young adults who died suddenly in Mexico City revealed amyloid plaques similar to those found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease.

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