May’s summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) plodded along for two days of empty photo ops. Then, once the summit
Stephen J. Hartnett is a professor of communication at the University of Colorado Denver and the author of “The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism.”

May’s summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) plodded along for two days of empty photo ops. Then, once the summit