The Geopolitics of Interdependence: What's Really At Stake in Trump Xi Summit The upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing has been billed as a high stakes summit, with tensions running high over trade, technology, Taiwan, and the Iran war.
Beneath these surface level squabbles lies a more profound reality: the complex web of interdependence that binds the world's two largest economies together.
As Salvador Santino Regilme, an associate professor at Leiden University, notes, the US China relationship is characterized by "strategic rivalry" and deep economic dependence.