Pomp, Pandas, and a Two-Month Truce: Xi Jinping’s Washington Visit
Three days of ceremony produced a short trade extension, a $30 billion tariff trim, an AI hotline, and no settlement on Taiwan, rare earths, or the wars that still sit between the two powers.
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday after his first formal state visit to the United States in eleven years. He landed back in Beijing on Saturday. The photographs were warm and the ledger was thin.
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