First Lady diplomacy is the softest of soft power: unelected, unscripted and unfailingly photographed. It operates in the spaces between formal negotiations: the arrival tarmac, the state banquet, the cultural tour. And fashion is its most visible dialect
The meetings between President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. in September were of interest far beyond the two countries
Economic and trade consultations enhance the stability of the external environment for China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation and boost market confidence
In that sense, the deeper question raised by the summit is whether the world’s leading technological powers can learn to compete and cooperate without allowing technological rivalry to harden into domination or permanent confrontation
