3 Summits in East Asia: Diplomacy Amid Geopolitical Uncertainties
Trump and Xi left Beijing without a rare-earth deal or tariff breakthrough, underscoring limited gains as regional powers pursued tighter security ties.
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3 summits in East Asia: Diplomacy amid geopolitical uncertainties
This month, a series of summits was held in East Asia. The first summit was between the two superpowers: the United States and China. A few days later, summits between Korea and Japan, and then between Russia and China, followed. As the current international order undergoes significant geopolitical shifts, these summits have conveyed the participating countries’ overlapping and divergent strategic calculations. The summit between U.S. President …
Trump-Xi China Summit and the Unavoidable Reality of Deference
Washington spent decades portraying China as a “near-peer” competitor, implying that American primacy remained intact. That was true for a while, but it is now officially obsolete, for China competes effectively with America in almost every metric. For example, in purchasing power terms, China’s economy has already surpassed America’s, and its shipbuilding capacity has been assessed at up to 230 times that of the US. It has built dominance in th…
Last Thursday, during their walk to the garden of Zhongnanhai, magnificent vestige of imperial China today reserved for the hierarchs of the Chinese Communist Party, President Trump said he was amazed by the beauty of the roses he discovered in front of him. "I decided to send the plants of these roses to the President, as a gift," responded Xi. "I love it, it's great!" Trump replied delighted. These roses will remain the only present granted by…
The two leaders chose diplomatic maneuvering rather than open confrontation.
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