The Beijing Summit Rewrites the Rules of Superpower Economic Engagement
The meeting emphasized investment and technology ties as both sides welcomed business ties, but the talks ended without a joint communique.
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Beijing summit: Strategic stability or business as usual?
President Donald Trump’s long-awaited state visit to China took place on May 13-15 in Beijing at the invitation of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese central government. Trump traveled with a striking entourage of U.S. CEOs—a collection of capitalist billionaires including Elon Musk of Tesla, Tim Cook of Apple, and Kelly Ortburg of Boeing, among many others. The president apparently wanted to show U.S. economic clout and facilitate big-time bu…
The Beijing Summit Rewrites the Rules of Superpower Economic Engagement
The conclusion of the high-stakes Beijing summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14 marked a critical pivot in the structural architecture of the international system. This meeting matters profoundly because it introduces an unexpected floor to a relationship that many analysts predicted would enter a terminal downward spiral under a second Trump administration. Rather than a standard diplomatic gridlo…
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