The future of the relationship is likely to be unscripted and messy at times, even full of friction, yet somehow maintaining a rhythm
Yet the real triumph for China is the visit itself – the first by a US president in nine years; Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden did not visit China at all during his term. For comparison, during the Cold War, after Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the US in 1959, it was eight years before a second Soviet leader, Alexei Kosygin, was invited to visit in 1967. No US president visited the Soviet Union in that time.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
