Though the Beijing summit between President Xi and President Trump brought no grand agreement, middle powers must still work to manage strategic competition and great-power bargaining

There was a lot of grand talk about stabilizing the relationship, and few deliverables.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted President Trump and offered the U.S. a "new vision" of relations more focused on trade and collaboration than on confrontation. Trump in turn,…

Xi and Trump establish new common understandings to guide constructive China-US relations over the next three years.

The United States may be accepting the reality of Chinese power.