China’s ties with America are warming, a bit
Xi Jinping may be on a charm offensive, but America remains the villain
In New York politics, plain speaking is an asset. Fearless public candour is less useful when climbing to the top ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. Despite this daunting culture gap, Chuck Schumer—the acerbic, Brooklyn-born majority leader of America’s Senate and co-chairman of the first congressional delegation to China since before the pandemic—held businesslike meetings with Xi Jinping and other party bosses on October 9th and 10th.
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This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Xi Jinping’s charm offensive”
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