CHINA/ECONOMY/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping will hold the most important meeting between the leaders of the United States and China in decades in Argentina on Saturday [12-1-18] night. It’s not just that the two men have the power to call a truce in a multi-billion dollar trade war that has damaged both sides and the global economy. They meet at a defining moment in US-China ties which are turning sharply more adversarial with Beijing being more assertive on the world stage and Washington shifting to a more confrontational pose. For decades, US policy on China has been premised on drawing the rising giant into a rules-based international system, on the basis that greater economic opening would inevitably lead to political liberalization.”
–Stephen Collinson, “Cold War fears cloud Trump-Xi summit,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, November 30, 2018 5:21 pm