The ‘striking’ difference in how Trump and Xi used their invisible summit
The recent summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping yielded little in terms of concrete commercial or regulatory outcomes. While the leaders discussed AI and trade, analysts described the meeting as high on ceremony but low on substantive progress.
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The lack of tangible results in US-China relations highlights ongoing geopolitical tensions and the difficulty of achieving diplomatic breakthroughs in trade and technology policy.
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Share A A A Washington/Beijing: The many American business and technology titans invited to the White House state dinner on Thursday night – Jeff Bezos, David Ellison and Jamie Dimon among them – mostly had each other for company.
There was no delegation of Chinese business executives on the trip, as there was on Xi Jinping’s last state visit to Washington in 2015.
Apple’s Tim Cook, seated near Chinese President Xi Jinping at the state dinner. Annabelle Gordon - Pool via CNP It was one of the many signs that this summit was unlikely to elicit substantial outcomes – commercially at least – other than photographs.
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