President Xi Jinping has become somewhat the “host with the mostest,” because foreign leaders visit him as though walking through a revolving door. President Donald Trump went to Beijing last week. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin followed him hot on the heels earlier this week and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will arrive over the weekend. (President Asif Ali Zardari had already paid a visit at the end of April.) Since the beginning of the year, Spain’s Pedro Sanchez, Canada’s Mark Carney, the UAE’s Sheikh Khaled bin Mohammed, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and others had visited the Middle Kingdom.
China has always seen herself as the country in the middle (literal translation of the Chinese characters) or more commonly referred to itself as the Middle Kingdom.
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China takes an ever more prominent position on the world stage, which should not be further surprising given it has become the second largest economy in the world.
China has to manage the relationship with the largest economy in the world very carefully, which was reflected by Trump’s visit with Xi. It had turned out to be as constructive as could have been hoped for.
