Ankit Panda, South China Morning Post: Summit was not quite the meeting of equals Xi would have wanted
The two nations remain near-peers in the realm of contemporary great powers, and not absolute peers as China would will it
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to US President Donald Trump’s over-the-top estate at Mar-a-Lago in Florida was meant to offer an opportunity to showcase China as an equal to the United States.
Xi would ideally have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump, amid all the pomp and ostentatious kitsch of what Trump has called his ‘Winter White House’, and impressed on the US administration that China’s long-sought reality of a ‘G2’ of sorts with the United States was now a fait accompli amid Trump’s supposed lurch away from the old shibboleths of US foreign policy since the end of the second world war.
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1 comment:
Si shouldn't be to glum about the whole thing. The US might still be stronger than China but China, at best for the USA, China is very, very close to the USA in terms of power and influence and any confrontation be it a military one or a trade war the Chinese can hurt us very, very badly. Also, he can take great comfort in knowing the USA is heavily dependent upon made in China.
Maybe they aren't equals but they are close enough. I for one would prefer we not find out who is stronger. Perhaps we "win" but it would be extremely pyric.
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