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What Was This Xi Visit About?
There was some pomp around China’s President Xi’s visit and talks in Washington DC. There were however no results.
One wonders then why it at all happened.
A somewhat racist remark in a NY Times report seems to imply that it was Xi who needed the visit:
The trip was certainly a propaganda boost for Mr. Xi, who has sought to cast himself as an equal to Mr. Trump on the world stage.
In my view its exactly the other way around. It was Trump who needed the propaganda boost.
(BTW – in what category and by what measure is the U.S. still superior to China?)
The only outcome of Xi’s visit that will have some consequence is an agreement to prolong the current trade truce between the countries by two months. The visit was unnecessary to achieve that. The agreement on that was made two days before Xi arrived.
The Chinese had hoped for a full year extension of the deal. But the U.S. still seems to think it has leverage. It wants China to buy more of its agricultural products:
“Beijing wanted a much longer period of predictability, while Washington has preserved an early opportunity to test Chinese performance and reassess its leverage,” Singleton said. “By January, the administration should know whether China actually delivered on its agricultural commitments.”
“This is less about buying two months of calm than making China earn the next extension,” he added.
But the U.S. has no leverage to press China into buying more soybean – at least not now. When Trump put sky high tariffs on China the country blocked its rare earth exports. The U.S. urgently needs those minerals and has no way to produce them itself. After the rare earth exports were blocked tariffs were lifted. Trump had had to chicken out.
That situation has not changed today and will not have changed a year from now. It is also unlikely that the next two months will give the U.S. more leverage.
Trump and Xi will meet again at the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in China in November and at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in the U.S. in December. There is thus ample chance to further prolong the trade deal.
Everything else, seen from China’s perspective, can wait for some time.
China can continue to sit back and look on while Trump helps the U.S. empire to dismantle itself.
“China’s civilization came from the West,…” — Kansas #63
This is likely the most ignorant statement of the year. I thought Trump is stupid enough, but never underestimate the stupidity of the people in the West.
“…where the writing was cuneiform.” — Kansas #63
Firstly, Chinese language came from the Oracle bone script (甲骨文), not the “cuneiform.” They are totally unrelated and there are vast differences between them. Secondly, cuneiform was a fake language with fake archeological “evidences” invented by Europeans in the 1700’s – 1800’s. It was never noted by that natives before that. It was not recorded by Chinese explorers who travelled there extensively before the arrival of Europeans. Finally, the so-called “cuneiform,” even if it exists, was not part of the “West.”
“A Chinese scholar visiting the British Museum happened upon cuneiform…” — Kansas #63
This has to be a very stupid Chinese, if the person can even be called a “scholar.”
“… he recognized characters and was able to translate passages of cuneiform because of its similarity to Chinese characters. ” — Kansas #63
This is impossible! Thousands of modern Chinese researchers, with over a century of intensive investigations and studies, are still unable to translate some of the INDIVIDUAL characters of the Oracle bone script (甲骨文), which we know is related to modern Chinese language. But you claim that a “Chinese scholar” was able to translate entire *passages* from a totally different (and artificially made-up) written form, unrelated to modern Chinese language, with just a casual encounter!
I challenge you to provide the link to show the translated passages, or else admit you are a liar.
You write just a few sentences, but yet contains so many falsehoods, ignorant statements and wrong assumptions.
p/s: Readers who want to understand some of the modern Chinese research to prove the fake western narration of “history” like cuneiform, the non-existent Greek “civilization”, the “Renaissance”, etc. should read some of the following books. Unfortunately, they are all in Chinese and most would probably NOT be translated into English for a long time:
言不必称希腊, author: 黄河清光从中华来, author: 黄河清虚构的古希腊文明, author: 董并生坤輿萬國全圖解密：明代測繪世界, author: 李兆良希腊伪史考, author: 何新东方启明, author: 丁杰 / 朱恪远虚构的西方文明史, author: 诸玄识他们相信，中国人比哥伦布先到, author: 淡巴菰
Posted by: d dan | Sep 27 2026 5:36 utc | 83
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