Rivalry with Beijing is inevitable. Economic rupture would be disastrous.

By Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and the author, most recently, of Age of Revolutions.

A woman is seen from behind with her neck craned to look at a large screen affixed to a four-story building with big windows. On the screen, Trump and Xi stand side by side and shake hands.

A woman watches a news program about the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, seen on a giant screen outside a shopping mall in Beijing on May 14. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images

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