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Can China trust Trump?
Still, given Trump’s track record, the world is watching closely to see whether the U.S. president will be more predictable and more consistent.
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Towards a Constructive China-U.S. Relationship of Strategically Stability
U.S. President Donald Trump's China visit on May 13-15, 2026 was a resounding success and marks a milestone in the world's...
Constructive Strategic Stability: Toward a New Strategic Vocabulary for China-U.S. Relations
Yet even at this early stage, the notion deserves attention. It reflects an important intellectual shift in how China may now conceptualize its relationship with the United States.
A New Vision of Building a Constructive China-U.S. Relationship of ‘Strategic Stability’
Strategic stability is not weakness. It is wisdom. Constructive engagement is not concession. It is responsibility.
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.
The Art of Strategic Engagement
Engagement provides intelligence, reveals intentions and prevents the kind of mutual ignorance that transforms manageable competition into existential conflict.
Could Trump-Xi Summit Be a Major Relationship Thaw?
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.
The World Wants the U.S. to Be Better—It Can Be, If It Lets Go of Outdated Thinking
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.
Xi-Trump Summit Cannot Solve Everything, But It Can Still Prevent Disaster
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.
Where the Axe Didn’t Fall
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.
Who Decides What Happens on the Ocean Floor?
When technological capacity and resource distribution are profoundly unequal, how to prevent the powerful from claiming, in the name of efficiency, what belongs to everyone?
How “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” Helped Change the U.S.-China Relationship
This sense among the population that we are not so different from each other can go a long way in influencing the political process.
Ally, Vassal or Pawn?
From Washington’s perspective, Japan is increasingly little more than a pawn to be discarded when convenient, and Takaichi’s trip to the U.S. laid that bare.