Pursuer of Truth
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If only you'd go further. You'd see what I see. But if you go further still, take me with you.
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Between previous U.S.-China summits and the one that just took place, a fundamental shift has happened. America is now negotiating with China as a peer, not a dominant power. In 2013, Obama went to California to meet Xi as the leader of the unipolar world, welcoming a rising China into an American-built order on American terms. In Trump's first term, he banned Huawei, weaponized semiconductors, and reframed the entire Pacific around containing China. This week, Trump flew to Beijing, accepted a personal tour of the Temple of Heaven, showered Xi with praise, and left touting soybean deals instead of demanding much more. At this point, Trump needs Xi more than Xi needs Trump, and Beijing extracted maximum symbolic value from that leverage. Obama tried to integrate China into the American order, Trump's first term tried to break it, Trump's second term is accommodating it. That isn’t a negotiating strategy, it’s acceptance of a new world order.
Maharlu lake before and after war, in less than 6 month
