Prefer to Watch: Click Above. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have emerged from a Washington summit with warmer photographs, a few useful trade concessions and plans to meet twice more. That is better than another tariff spiral. It is not, however, a reset of the world’s...
Prefer to Watch: Click Above Donald Trump personally greeted Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday evening. The two governments also agreed to extend their trade truce until January 10, 2027. If diplomacy were judged by airport arrivals, this would look like...
By Tony Fiddis: China Analyst. China and the United States are preparing to talk about artificial intelligence. Not compete over it, not sanction each other over it, not accuse each other of trying to dominate it , although they will presumably do all of those...
Prefer to Watch: Click Above A carefully staged meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping could soon test whether Washington and Beijing can stabilise a relationship still strained by trade, technology, Taiwan, and strategic competition. At the same time, China is...
There is a very particular kind of optimism that emerges whenever Beijing and Washington agree to stop throwing bricks through each other’s windows. It is the optimism of people who have forgotten that both sides still own the bricks, have warehouses full of them, and...
