The back-slapping warmth of President Trump’s Beijing summit with Xi Jinping has already given way to the underlying reality of competing interests, with Xi warning that the bilateral relationship will enjoy stability only if Taiwan is handled properly, Taiwan’s president separately stressing that American arms sales represent the most important deterrent of regional conflict, and the Iranian situation unresolved despite Xi’s offer to help however he can.
Geoffrey Cain, author of The Perfect Police State: An Investigation Into China’s Surveillance Dystopia and the new book Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of Next and the Remaking of an American Visionary, joined Dan Proft on Chicago’s Morning Answer to offer a post-mortem on the summit and its implications.