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North Korea looms as next big test for China-US relations Laura Zhou and Eduardo Baptista
While Biden called North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a thug during his campaign - a barb he also used to describe Chinese leader Xi Jinping - observers said the new US president was likely to take a more traditional and pragmatic diplomatic approach than his predecessor.
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Donald Trump s unconventional style led to three unprecedented meetings with Kim, who ignored the former president s demand for complete denuclearisation and last month announced a list of development plans for hi-tech nuclear weapons systems to deal with what he called intensifying American hostility.