Expert Pessimistic on Future of US-China Relations Despite Trump-Xi Meeting
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Despite a recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, an expert from CASS’ National Institute for Global Strategy, Zhao, expresses pessimism about the future of US-China relations, citing unresolved structural forces.
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“I’m not that rosy about the future because the structural forces are still working,” said Zhao, director of the international politics programme at CASS’ National Institute for Global Strategy.
Last month, US President Donald Trump’s high-stakes visit to China produced few economic deliverables but he and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed to build what Washington called a “constructive relationship of strategic stability”.
Even though the meeting restored some stability and helped ease pressure on supply chains, including aircraft engine deliveries, Zhao said it did little to resolve the deeper mismatch between how Washington and Beijing saw the relationship.
And while the Trump administration tended to frame ties in transactional terms, Xi approached the talks through a broader global, bilateral and people-to-people lens, Zhao said.
“At this stage, it’s no longer a pure bilateral relationship. It’s a global relationship,” Zhao said at the Dalian meeting, also known as the “Summer Davos”.
