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Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions

Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions

Update: 2025-04-17
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President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. President Donald Trump’s is not. That dynamic is complicating their gargantuan standoff. Spain ends up with more and more remains of migrants who die on their journeys—and its morgues cannot keep up (10:29 ). And in an age of video games pinball is not only surviving, it’s flipping thriving (18:11 ).


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Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions

Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions