How different were Trump and Putins visits to China
BEIJING (AP) — On the surface, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s back-to-back summits with U. S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin looked pretty similar, with formal handshakes in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, enthusiastic greetings from flower-waving children, and marching columns of soldiers branching gleaming bayonets. But the visits also revealed how different China’s relationship is with the two countries. During Trump’s visit, China sought to stabilize ties with the...
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