Is Trump Getting Played by Xi?
“The stakes could hardly be higher when the leader of the free world and the leader of the authoritarian Axis powers sit down tonight,” writes Matt Pottinger. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)
If so, America’s agrarian past may be its future.
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In a matter of hours, President Donald Trump will sit down with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the first time in six years to determine whether America will remain a technological superpower or, if Xi gets his way, becomes an agrarian commune beholden to Beijing.
The stakes really are that high. Allow me to explain.
In November 2017, I accompanied President Trump on his state visit to Beijing, serving as his senior Asia staffer. One of our meetings was with then-Premier Li Keqiang, who delivered a pointed message that his boss, Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, apparently preferred not to deliver himself.
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