ML-Implode News - China, Grappling With Trump, Turns to â€˜Old Friend' Kissinger

The 93-year-old former secretary of state, who secretly brokered President Richard Nixon's watershed visit in 1972, returned to Beijing to meet with state leaders Friday, just two weeks after huddling with Trump in New York. While little about Kissinger's closed-door talks has been disclosed, Chinese officials are trying to assess whether the incoming administration will prompt greater confrontation over trade and territory disputes, as Trump promised on the campaign trail.
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"The U.S. and China are going to have to establish some channels, but that is going to take time," said Tim Summers, a Hong Kong-based senior consulting fellow for Chatham House. Summers said that Xi, unlike Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, "is not going drop into Trump Tower en route somewhere else. So, we are in for a period of U.S.-china uncertainty, along with all the other issues up in the air at the moment."

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China, Grappling With Trump, Turns to â€˜Old Friend' Kissinger