Trump is no longer China’s biggest trade problem
Xi Jinping may be able to secure another truce in Washington. That will not resolve the growing resistance to China’s export model elsewhere.
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US President Donald Trump shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a visit in Beijing, China, on May 15.
PHOTO: REUTERS
If plans hold, Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Washington on Sept 24 from an unusual position: leading a China that looks economically vulnerable at home, but formidable abroad.
Increasingly, those two conditions are connected.