The Trivium China Podcast

← The Trivium China Podcast25 sept · 37 min

Ep 88 - The Xi-Trump risk nobody's pricing in

Ep 88 - The Xi-Trump risk nobody's pricing in25 sept37 min

US President Donald Trump met Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday – a rare honor last extended to the Pope by Barack Obama. The atmospherics of the greeting and the rest of Xi’s Washington trip were great. The actual deliverables of the visit were more muted. The one concrete outcome from Xi’s Washington visit was a two-month extension of the Busan trade truce, far short of the six-month floor most observers expected going in.On this quick-reaction episode of the Trivi...