Why Europe Is Watching the Xi-Trump Summit So Closely
Improved China-U.S. trade relations would benefit Europe significantly by reducing uncertainty across global supply chains and restoring investors’ confidence.
Improved China-U.S. trade relations would benefit Europe significantly by reducing uncertainty across global supply chains and restoring investors’ confidence.
Engagement provides intelligence, reveals intentions and prevents the kind of mutual ignorance that transforms manageable competition into existential conflict.
Joint efforts in fields such as medicine, biotechnology, and new energy technologies — including thermonuclear fusion — could bring substantial benefits to both societies. These are areas that carry profound implications for the future of humanity, and cooperation could accelerate progress in ways that competition alone cannot achieve.
Hard power and soft power are abundant in both countries. There is no reason they cannot more publicly and successfully work together. But old habits die hard, to borrow a cliche, and Washington is too often stuck in that mindset.
A successful meeting would not eliminate distrust between Beijing and Washington. It would simply prove that responsible statecraft still exists in an increasingly fractured international system. That alone would qualify as meaningful geopolitical progress.
When Americans talk about cutting fat, watch what they keep. They increased funding for anti-China activities. And that tells you more than any U.S. State Department white paper ever could.
Face-to-face exchange remains essential. It breaks down barriers. It promotes understanding between people. Sports can play a role in that.
We might have different cultural values, we might have different cultural norms, we might have perceptions about each other. But the fact is we are both human.
Sustainable development depends on openness, cooperation and respect for mutually agreed rules.
This sense among the population that we are not so different from each other can go a long way in influencing the political process.
More predictable economic ties between China and the U.S. would have spillover benefits beyond the two countries.
The only correct pathway for Washington is to work together with China on the base of equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit.