Eurasia is absorbing a series of strategic shocks. Russia is mired in its war in Ukraine. Israel and the United States have fought a war with Iran. A decades-long Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict has ended, and a new confrontation between Afghanistan and Pakistan looms.
In retrospect, the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing increasingly appears to be a lost opportunity for the U.S. This is not because there were few concrete achievements or deliverables from this summit. In history, many previous summits that also produced few material agreements ultimately triggered mutually beneficial transformations in great power relations.
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