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• Experts fear there won’t be many breakthroughs in trade, technology due to tensions
• Neither side expected to make ‘much progress’ on Iran, Taiwan issues
WASHINGTON: As US President Donald Trump begins a high-level summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, analysts in Washington said the talks were likely to be defined less by any breakthroughs in trade or technology and more by intensifying geopolitical tensions, with the Iran crisis emerging as a key, if indirect, test of US-China strategic competition.
At an on-the-record briefing on Tuesday hosted by the Washington-based Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), experts argued that the US-China relationship has entered a largely transactional phase, in which both sides pursue narrow gains rather than structural accommodation.
