Even the sudden roar caused by a B-1 bomber flying overhead, shattering the sky over Andrews Air Force Base, failed to raise an eyebrow. While people around him opened their eyes in amazement and covered their ears, Xi Jinping politely glanced into the air, without showing any emotion.
Received for three days in the United States by Donald Trump, the Chinese president remained true to himself. Strict and impassive. He barely snickered (which, for us, is equivalent to a full quarter of an hour of laughter) when the resident of the White House released a humiliating joke, one more, about his predecessor Joe Biden. For the rest, while the world is going to pieces, there was no announcement coming from the two masters of the world. Only the form mattered. For the background, we will come back. We therefore saw Trump overplaying friendship with a lot of declarations of respect and patting arms, and Xi Jinping supporting this exercise without flinching.
Exchanges that remained private
While the two superpowers have just extended the truce in their bitter trade war until early January, one would have thought that they would discuss some “minor” disagreements. But of course no one has mentioned, publicly at least, the military and logistical aid provided by China to Iran, or by the USA to Taiwan. Motus also, apart from a few banalities, on the galloping progress of AI, as no one seems to want to hold back their thoroughbred in this frantic race.
No, between two glasses of champagne, we just learned that two pandas, Fu Shuang and Ping Ping, were going to join the Atlanta Zoo, or that Donald Trump and Xi Jinping shared “the same love of granite. » There was no doubt that this rock formed from volcanic magma, smooth and pretty in appearance but exceptionally hard, served as their common passion.
