On China, Trump wants to be Mr. Nice Guy now

In conversations held during and immediately after his visit to Beijing, President Trump clearly expressed his views about Xi Jinping, China, and the US-China relationship. The effect is rather jarring, because they constitute a major departure from the dominant hawkish viewpoints of many people who served in his first and second administrations.At the time, those individuals had trumpeted the fundamental change that Trump had wrought in America’s approach to China, from Biden and Obama-era comp...