Trump’s Beijing Trip Exposes the Crisis Inside US Empire

Trump arrived in Beijing alongside 17 of America’s most powerful CEOs as rising tensions over China, Iran, trade, and the global economy set the stage for a high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping. Professor Ken Hammond of New Mexico State University, argues the trip exposes the contradiction at the heart of U.S. policy, with corporate elites demonizing China publicly while depending on Chinese markets, technology, and rare earth supplies behind closed doors.

“The kind of bullying and the kind of hostility and aggressiveness that the United States has deployed towards China simply isn’t going to work,” says Hammond. “The idea that somehow we are going to derail China’s progress, that’s just not reality.”

“The idea we can derail China’s progress is just not reality.”

As Trump lands in Beijing, Prof. Ken Hammond discusses the high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping and why China’s long-term planning is outmaneuvering Washington’s “reckless” vacillation.