Chinese President Xi Jinping communicated to President Donald Trump in Beijing that the United States must change its behavior to ensure US-China relations stability and avoid the “Thucydides Trap.” Xi asserted that the US needs to accommodate China's growing technical, economic, and military power, rather than China altering its own policies.
Key “red lines” for Beijing include Washington containing Taiwan's independence movement, limiting American arms sales to Taiwan, ceasing pressure on Hong Kong's political system, and overlooking human rights abuses in Tibet and Xinjiang. In return, China implied substantial trade rewards, such as purchases of 200 Boeing aircraft, 400 or more aircraft engines, and $17 billion in US agricultural products. President Trump suggested using US arms sales to Taiwan as a “negotiating chip,” but the article highlights the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act as a crucial guide for US policy. The decision to accommodate Beijing will significantly shape future US policy in Asia.
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