Hope in fraught times: Trump-Xi bond could shift ties for the better, say US experts


FILe photo. US President Donald Trump meeting his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Osaka in 2019. - Photo: Reuters file

BEIJING: US President Donald Trump’s free hand domestically and open admiration for Chinese President Xi Jinping could make him the wild card capable of shifting the relationship between the world’s two largest powers from rivalry to cooperation, American scholars have said.

Speaking at a session developed in collaboration with The Straits Times at a World Economic Forum event in Tianjin on Thursday (June 26), Harvard professor Graham Allison pointed out that Trump is not a China hawk.

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