The Daily Beast
/GEETTPhoto Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Getty This week, from the 13 th to the 15 th of May, the two men who have arguably done the most during this century to make China the world’s most powerful nation will meet in Beijing. One is China’s leader, Xi Jinping . The other is Donald Trump, an aging, increasingly feeble president one month shy of his 80 th birthday. He’s seeking a traditional Chinese remedy for the many things that ail him. At the very least, he hopes to change the subject from his disastrous war in Iran and plummeting domestic political fortunes. More ambitiously, but in all likelihood futilely, he hopes to help his own dimming brand by associating it with the man he sees as the gold standard among the world leaders he most admires. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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