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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
When President Joe Biden Zoomed with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday, the rooms they spoke from were more than backdrops. Xi spoke from a vast, pink-carpeted room in the Great Hall of the People, apparently the same room in which he met then-Veep Biden in 2013. Biden Zoomed from the modest Roosevelt Room in the White House. Politico’s Phelim Kine dubbed it the Summit Zoom Room Size Contest. Of course, everything about China is big (including reception rooms for high-level foreign dignitaries). Yet size symbolizes China’s — and Xi’s — growing power. Even a tongue-in-cheek focus on Zoom room…