The Trump-Xi summit leaves the US-China rivalry largely unchanged, managing competition rather than delivering a breakthrough

Xi Jinping walked down the red carpet at Joint Base Andrews this week for his first Washington visit in over a decade — the third face-to-face meeting between him and Donald Trump in under a year, after Busan in October and Beijing in May. The optics were unmistakably warm: a military review in the Rose Garden, a state dinner in the East Room, and both leaders speaking of mutual respect.

Beneath it, the same unresolved fault lines — trade, technology, Taiwan — remain exactly where they were. Xi’s concerns were not disguised. On artificial intelligence, Beijing wants Washington to ease chip export controls and open the door to Chinese AI models, while offering........

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