Trump Plans to Urge Xi to Open Up China, Echoing Nixon’s 1972 Gamble

9 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 13

Trump said before arriving in Beijing on Wednesday that he would ask Xi Jinping to “open up” China, praising him online as “a Leader of extraordinary distinction.”
The appeal revives a half-century U.S. approach that tied engagement and trade with China to hopes of broader change, a strategy traced in the report back to Nixon’s 1972 opening.
That framework has been tested by repeated swings in ties—from the post-Tiananmen freeze to China’s WTO-era rise—as Beijing grew more powerful and more assertive.
Chinese officials and analysts now increasingly portray the United States as a country in decline, underscoring how much the balance and tone of summit diplomacy have shifted.

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