The Korea Times
BERLIN — On his recent trip to Beijing, U.S. President Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful person, was accompanied by many of the top names in American business, finance, and technology, all of whom understand the importance of maintaining a working relationship with China. For the rest of the world, this was a positive development, because we should all want the world’s two biggest powers to speak directly to each other. Trump’s Chinese hosts showered him with pomp and circumstance — including flag-waving children — and he repaid the favor by lavishing praise on Chinese President Xi Jinping. Beyond the spectacle, however, the summit’s results were meager. There seems to have been little progress on substantive matters like trade, nor (as far as we know) were there any major new supply contracts for American industry and agriculture or coordinated efforts to resolve major international conflicts such as the wars in Ukraine and the Gulf. But the images from the summit visit spoke for themselves. Trump found himself in the rather unfamiliar role of a supplicant. Everyon
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