Douglas Dillon Professor @Kennedy_School | Former Director @BelferCenter | Author of "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap?"
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5/ I’m waiting for one of the betting sites to allow us to wager on this test. (You can already offer your view on whether Trump will sign an executive order in the next month making his promise to rename AI official—only one-third of bettors say he will.)
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3/ President Trump is a master of the art of the show. By this unprecedented step he is signaling unparalleled respect for President Xi. Pictures will plaster Chinese outlets, shouting louder than any words could to Xi’s constituents.
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2/ Indeed, this will be the only state visit in 67 years in which an American president has gone to the airport to receive a foreign leader. The earlier case occurred in 1959 when Dwight Eisenhower received Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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1/ President Trump’s decision to go to Andrews Air Base to roll out the red carpet for China’s President Xi Jinping when his plane lands there this afternoon is literally unprecedented. Never before has an American president gone to the airport to meet a Chinese leader visiting Washington.
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4/ I noted that this would not be the first time in which the fundamental relationship between rival great powers was radically reconceptualized. Remembering the Cold War, I described how successive American leaders from Kennedy to Reagan recognized the brute fact that they were confronting an enemy in a MAD world. As they internalized that reality, they found it necessary to develop new concepts and strategies to protect and advance American national interests.
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