President Trump will receive President Xi of China at Andrews Air Force base, breaking with six decades of protocol. In May, when Trump visited China, Xi did not travel to Beijing airport.
The FT believes that Trump may have caged the China hawks in his cabinet.
Trump started off his term with hawkish measures, include stiff tariffs on China that went up to 140 per cent. China retaliated with tariffs and then used its trump card- it slowed down exports of critical minerals to the US.
That brought about an agreement on scaled down tariffs between the two countries and a revival of critical mineral exports.
But why would Trump think it necessary to go to the airport to receive Xi? That is not clear from the FT story. Is is anything more than wanting to preserve the Busan agreement?
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