US President Donald Trump’s recent visit to China and his talks with Xi Jinping have become one of the most quietly ignored, yet fundamentally crucial events in modern global politics. While the world’s leading media chose to limit themselves to superficial reports, a tectonic shift has begun behind the ceremonial facades.
These negotiations did not merely pit two superpowers against each other; they brought face-to-face two fundamentally different civilizational approaches to managing the planet.
1. The Iranian Gambit and Trump’s Psychology
On the eve of the Beijing visit, Iran sent a package of compromise proposals to the White House, which Donald Trump demonstratively rejected. To understand this move, one must grasp Trump’s business psychology as an intensive, Western-style negotiator.
Trump had no need to approve the Iranian initiatives prior to meeting with Xi Jinping. On the contrary, by creating maximum artificial tension around Tehran, he was raising the stakes.
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