Chill coming from Trump’s summit with Xi is proof of a new Cold War with China

Before President Donald Trump departed for Beijing, I warned in these pages that his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping would not simply be another diplomatic meeting about tariffs and trade. I argued it would instead expose the deeper reality now reshaping global affairs: America and China are increasingly operating within conditions resembling a new Cold War — driven by military power, economic leverage, competing technological ambitions and irreconcilable visions for world order.

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