Trump Stole Limelight. But Xi Came Out Looking Stronger
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The core goal of the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping was clear enough: bring the temperature down and strike some agreements that would stabilise one of the world’s most important bilateral relationships.
World leaders kicked off the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on Friday, with Chinese President Xi Jinping taking the spotlight to address global trade uncertainties.
At an Asia-Pacific summit, the Chinese leader urged countries to “resist unilateral bullying,” an appeal that seemed at odds with his country’s recent actions.
President Trump heads into a high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping seeking to finalize a trade deal that eases tensions globally.
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The Chinese president assures that China's development does not contradict the U.S. vision of "Making America Great Again," while the American president praises Xi as a "great leader". With global trade at stake,
Xi Jinping seems to believe that only his continued rule can secure China’s rise. But as he ages, choosing a successor will become riskier and more difficult.
China will look to ramp up its military targeting of Taiwan in the next two years, a security expert has warned, as  Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are urged to address the possibility of war in their upcoming summits.
And then, at their summit meeting in South Korea on Thursday, both countries’ leaders took a step back from the brink of the economic “decoupling” that many analysts have forecast for nearly a decade.
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