Rosemary Foot
Two recent episodes involving China-U.S. relations underline an unexpected convergence in the relationship and the potential for these episodes to have a wider impact on the transitioning global order.
First, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the APEC meeting held in Busan on October 30, 2025, their first meeting since 2019. The agreements reached were not unexpected, largely unambitious, and mostly involved reversals and reinstatements of past policies, welded together by the expectation that there would be follow-on summit meetings between Trump and Xi in the spring and fall of 2026.
Secondly, the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) document was officially published in November 2025. It predominantly casts China as an economic competitor and accords it an implicit status as one of the “larger, richer, stronger” countries that is, and should be, shaping global order.
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