President Trump’s upcoming Beijing summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping carries unusual opportunity and risk because of their sharply different leadership styles. Dr. Dennis Wilder, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs, and Dr. Ursula Wilder, a clinical psychologist with decades of experience working at the CIA, examine Xi’s portrayal as a detached, strategic Machiavellian, and Trump’s characterization as an instinctive, charismatic dealmaker. Their shared belief in national greatness and power politics could produce major agreements, but also dangerous miscalculations.
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