Xi Jinping, whatever his many critics may argue, has been extraordinarily patient. And now, in the span of a few remarkable weeks, both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have made their separate visit to Beijing.T he rabbit, it turns out, ran exactly where Xi expected. This is not coincidence. It is architecture.
The simultaneous gravitational pull that China is exerting on Washington and Moscow — two powers that nominally define opposing ends of the current global order — tells us something profound about where real geopolitical weight now sits. Beijing is no longer reacting to the international system. It is, with quiet deliberation, reshaping it.