Trump Was Flattering, Xi Was Resolute
Xi warned the United States to handle Taiwan with caution as Trump pressed for closer ties and market access with business executives in tow.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump held private meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, centering discussions on bilateral relations and navigating significant geopolitical divides.
- Xi set immediate boundaries, delivering an unequivocal warning that China must control Taiwan while declaring the U.S. must handle the island with "utmost caution."
- Trump brought business executives to demonstrate "respect" and seek market access, though the delegation faced decades of bitter experience regarding intellectual property, unlike Xi who arrived highly scripted.
- The summit yielded no major breakthroughs, though Xi proposed a "constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability" that Rush Doshi of Georgetown University characterized as an effort to lock in a truce.
- Xi warned the two nations must avoid the "Thucydides Trap," where a rising power challenges a status-quo power, as disputes over Indo-Pacific military capability threaten this new framework.
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Trump Was Flattering, Xi Was Resolute
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