🇨🇳🇺🇸 "Constructive, strategic, stable." Xi's vision for U.S.-China relations sounds better than it is.- Beijing's position: the U.S. is not a partner, not an ally, but definitely not an enemy either- The goal is to avoid conflict or full economic decoupling while maintaining a stable base for ties- One expert calls it "cheap rhetoric" until both sides agree on mutual concessions and concrete mechanisms to manage the relationship- The phrase signals China wants guardrails on the rivalry, not

We let China into the WTO and gave them permanent normal trade relations.They came in as an emerging market — meaning they could protect their own economy with tariffs while selling into ours essentially unfettered.The theory in 1999 was that China would get wealthy, rise peacefully, and gradually become more like the West.We were too arrogant to question it. The Chinese understood us far better than we understood them.So they took our technology, copied our intellectual property, and pegged the