The first in-person meeting since 2019 between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on the margins of the APEC leaders' summit in Busan was under the media spotlight. Trump cut tariffs on China while Beijing allowed export of rare earth elements and import of American soybeans. However, China secured the more durable advantage — retaining policy space even as the US claimed a short-term victory, writes ex-Ambassador to China Ashok Kantha in his Op-Ed Trump and Xi pause trade war, not rivalry . China secured meaningful concessions that ease domestic pressures without compromising core policies, he writes. Taiwan remained unaddressed, one of the issues Harvard Kennedy School professor Rana Mitter had raised in his Op-Ed article When Trump meets Xi, who will be most powerful earlier in th

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