We Can Live with China (But Drop ‘Constructive Strategic Stability’) (opens in new tab)

Xi Jinping won the agenda for his summit with Donald Trump before Airforce One touched down in Beijing. America would do it his way. Trump’s cheerfulness and limited ambitions in Beijing must have surprised many Americans. For a decade, Washington had heralded a fierce, protracted competition with China. Trump rang the alarm bells himself in the early weeks of his first administration. But in Beijing, his team treated U.S.-China relations as a bean-counting exercise rather than as a great his...