Clandestine
Trump currently has massive control over China’s oil imports, and is kicking Chinese influence out of the Western Hemisphere, and yet Trump and Xi are on excellent terms.
What does this mean? It means that Xi is cooperating with Trump. Xi is standing down while Trump completes the “world’s most powerful reset”, as Trump calls it. There’s zero chance that Trump could have pulled off Iran without Xi being in the loop in some capacity.
My guess is, that Xi already agreed to a deal with Trump. I think Xi agreed to stay out of our sphere of influence, if we agreed to stay out of theirs. I think the world is going to look very different in the near future, and the relationship between our geopolitical adversaries is going to change.
Trump is rewriting the global rules of engagement, and it appears Xi has agreed to the terms.
