Watching the Super Bowl of US-China Nerds
The first quarter is in the books with a long game ahead.
This post originally appeared in Interconnected.
“The fact that this visit happened at all, when it was postponed once given the war in Iran, is in and of itself a ‘deliverable’.”
Trump wrapped up his state visit to China a few hours ago.
If you are an US-China relations nerd like myself, watching the minute-by-minute unfolding of the visit is like watching the Super Bowl. Having been somewhat on the inside of these types of visits before (I was on the White House advance team of Obama’s G20 Summit visit in Hangzhou in 2016), the small details were especially fun to observe and obsess about.
The visit is still fresh and lots of details are still muddy or emerging, as Air Force One en route to the US mainland as I type. With all that in mind, consider this post an off-the-cuff, spontaneous post-game analysis of the championship matchup.
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