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 ·
Washington and Beijing launch an artificial intelligence hotline and a new board of trade in New York, trading shallow diplomatic process for deep structural divergence.
By Tom Beckwith ·
As Donald Trump prepares to meet Xi Jinping to negotiate artificial intelligence and tariffs, Washington risks mistaking narrow technical fixes for a genuine shift in Beijing’s strategic ambitions.
By Tom Beckwith ·