Trump, Xi, and a New Balance of Power

FP's The Editor's Roundtable (The E.R.) by Foreign Policy

May 19, 202648:20News & Politics

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to great fanfare but left with little to show for it. What does the Trump-Xi summit reveal about the balance of power betwe...

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