A lot’s changed since Xi Jinping’s last US state visit. Mostly in China’s favor

When Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Washington this week, he will be sitting down with President Donald Trump in a vastly different position than the last time the two men met face-to-face in the United States nearly a decade ago.

At that 2017 summit at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort China was lagging America on multiple fronts and vulnerable to the tech and trade frictions Trump would unleash on it in the coming year. Now, Xi arrives at the helm of a country that’s transformed. Read More.....