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U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to great fanfare but left with little to show for it. What does the Trump-Xi summit reveal about the balance of power between the world’s two biggest economies? Rana Mitter, a top historian of China, joins FP Live to discuss where the world’s most important relationship is headed. Plus, Ravi shares his read on why the Iran war may be Trump’s greatest failure.
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the United States expended between half and 60% of its Patriot defense missiles, more than Ukraine has used in four years of war with Russia, and a third of its Tomahawk missiles
“the chairs that Presidents Xi and Trump sat in. They do seem to at least at one angle to have been arranged in such a way that President Trump seemed to maybe be sitting very slightly below President Xi on this.”
“they compromised by letting him in, but changing the Chinese character that was used to actually transliterate his name to make it seem as if it was someone else actually turning up.”
“very few of the transformative technological inventions, smartphones, AI applications and so forth, were originated in China. And that is a flaw, that is a problem that they haven't yet really got round.”
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