Ahead of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House on Thursday, which will be his third face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump since Trump returned to office, we’ve compiled a set of recent essays in Foreign Affairs that offer diverging perspectives on how the summit could shape the trajectory of the U.S.-Chinese relationship.
Orville Schell, a renowned China scholar who traveled to Beijing for Trump and Xi’s last meeting, cautions that this one is unlikely to produce a breakthrough because both leaders are ill-suited “to the kind of bargaining their current rivalry demands.” The Tsinghua University professor Da Wei, by contrast, argues that the summit offers a real chance “to lay the groundwork for enduring stability in bilateral ties.” And the economist Adam Posen considers how Trump could use the meeting to try a fresh approach to trade with China—one that does not treat economic relations as “a zero-sum game.”
Start reading below.
|
