North Korea crisis, which has been lingering on since April this year, as well as bilateral trade, is expected to be on the top of Trump’s agenda.
On the anniversary of his surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election, US president Donald Trump on Wednesday reached Beijing on his first visit to China.
This was Trump’s third stop in his five-nation Asia tour.
While a foreign tour by a US president is always keenly followed by the international community, his trip to China is considered significant on many counts.
The visit comes just two weeks after Xi Jinping was elected as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China for the second time. More significantly, Xi is now reportedly the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, after his philosophy “Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for new era” was added to the constitution.
Time magazine established the significance of Trump’s China visit in just one simple headline: “President Trump meets world’s most powerful man in Beijing.”
The US president has long been considered the world’s most powerful man.
So a well-respected magazine such as Time giving that title to the leader of China underlies the shift in the balance of power between the two nations.
Trump’s larger trip to the Asia Pacific region was always being seen through the prism of China’s rise as a regional power.
On 4 November, The Wall Street Journal called Trump’s five-nation tour as the most important by a US president in the last 25 years.
In a region threatened by China’s bid for “regional hegemony”, The Wall Street Journal noted that Trump’s five-nation tour highlights US’ commitment towards Asia.
North Korea crisis
North Korea crisis, which has been lingering since Apri l, as well as bilateral trade, was always expected to be on top of Trump’s agenda.
