Four months after
their last meeting, President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
traded niceties during the Chinese leader’s first visit to the US capital in over a decade. The two leaders extended a trade truce, exchanged gifts and compliments, and acknowledged the possibility of working together to contain the dangers of AI development.
For a historic summit meant to address rising tensions between the world’s largest economic and geopolitical powers, the Washington trip was relatively uneventful. But for
Xi’s own ambitions, China didn’t need much else.
