Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary (@zhao_dashuai)

President Xi will likely visit the US later this year, which means expect a lot of meetings to negotiate a more detailed trade, national security and investment deals in the coming months. Western media will report this Trump as being fruitless with few deals signed. But the reality is, deals are never negotiated during a state visit, they are negotiated by subordinates before official meetings between leaders, the leaders themselves just approve and sign it. This state visit is very Trumpian, that is to set up a cordial person to person environment, the details are irrelevant. The real deal happens behind closed doors being hashed out by ministerial level officials. So the main point of this state visit was to introduce the new US cabinet to their Chinese counterparts, as most of them have not met with any Chinese officials at a high level before.