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President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week, marking the first visit by a sitting US president to China since Trump’s last visit nearly a decade ago. While the summit produced few substantive breakthroughs on either side, it reinforced a new set of implicit rules that favor China's position.
Unlike smaller nations — in the European Union, for instance — that the United States maintains significant economic leverage over, China has the ability to resist the worst of America’s economic pressures and can develop extremely advanced technology that competes with the best the US has to offer
The Chinese, through technological advancement, economic strategizing, and maintaining strong, central control over its citizenry, have largely weathered Trump’s trade war and the worst effects of the Iran war.
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