How the ‘G2’ effect of Trump-Xi summit is reverberating through Asia
When the world’s two biggest powers speak of respecting each other and swap stories about a war against Japan, the message is clear
Chinese state media spared no superlative, echoing the official description of the summit as: forging the right way for the major powers to get along and writing a new chapter in ties. It played up the fact that Trump gave Xi the highest-level reception and met him at the airport, the first time since 1962 that a US president has done so for a visiting leader other than a pope.
