A president who defines himself as a deal-maker cannot return from Beijing empty-handed. In diplomacy, the side that needs the deal more is the side that concedes more
With the Kremlin ever more conscious of war fatigue and devastating losses on the front, what once was a foregone conclusion now appears in a very different light
If Trump sits across from Xi and fails to raise the cases of Uyghur Americans and their families, Beijing will read that omission not as pragmatism, but as weakness.