Trump's red carpet for Xi Jinping cannot hide trade friction
While Donald Trump hosted Xi Jinping for a lavish state visit, the two-month tariff truce proves that pageantry cannot hide economic friction.
By Tom Beckwith ·
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Trump greets Xi with bombers as a trade truce buys more time
Nations have interests, not friendships. That old rule of statecraft seems to have slipped the mind of the White House. Diplomacy is not a dinner party. Statecraft does not run on personal rapport.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Trump greets Xi with pageantry that rents quiet but buys no peace
President Trump greeted Xi Jinping with rare planeside honors to project stability, but the transactional display fails to resolve deep structural tensions over technology and Taiwan.
By Tom Beckwith ·