How Trump and Xi Traded a New Cold War for a Cold Peace
President Trump's recent state visit to China aimed to improve the strained U.S.-China relationship. While no major agreements were reached, the visit fostered dialogue and a more positive tone between the two nations. Both leaders expressed a desire to avoid conflict and work towards a stable coexistence.
- ▪Trump's visit was the first by an American leader since 2017.
- ▪The U.S.-China relationship has been marked by tension due to various global issues.
- ▪Both leaders emphasized the importance of avoiding the 'Thucydides Trap' and maintaining dialogue.
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President Donald Trump is back from Beijing after a state visit, the first by an American leader since he made the trip in 2017. In the intervening years, this most consequential bilateral relationship in the world had become dysfunctional, battered by a cascade of schisms including a global pandemic, increasing ideological antagonism, accelerating geopolitical rivalry, and surging trade tension. The United States and China seemed unable to have a dialogue, and conflict seemed inevitable. The question now is, having travelled across the world, what did Trump achieve in China? It is true that there was no “grand bargain”—yet he managed to move the U.S.-China relationship in a more positive direction, to the benefit of both countries and the world.
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