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Han Shen Lin, China managing director for The Asia Group consultancy, added that “the challenge is that the positive reception Trump received in China will be very difficult to reciprocate when Xi next goes to the US.”

“Huang, Musk and Cook in Beijing isn’t a coincidence, it’s choreography,” said Lin Han-Shen, China Country Director at The Asia Group.

Han Lin, China Country Director of The Asia Group noted that “things not getting worse may be the best that corporate leaders can expect but that’s still worth something in an increasingly volatile world.”

Han Lin, China Country Director of The Asia Group noted that without “enough ‘wins’ Trump may step back and let’s his more hawkish administration drive the bilateral relationship.  This will undoubtedly take us on the road to escalation.“

While concrete deliverables were limited, Mr George Chen, partner for Greater China practice at the Washington-based advisory The Asia Group, believes that personal dynamics matter. “Perhaps the most important development was not any single deal, but the simple fact that Xi and Trump finally spent extended time together again since their last meeting in Busan,”

“The summit has much more on positive atmospherics than deliverables, or at least on what China will officially acknowledge,” said Han Shen Lin, ⁠the Shanghai-based ​China country director at U.S. consultancy firm The Asia Group. “Nonetheless, if Beijing doesn’t give Trump ​enough ‘wins’ to take home, the risk is that in his disappointment, Trump steps

“The concept of ‘constructive strategic stability’ appears to be the new moniker for the relationship that China intends to use, at least over the next three years — we’ll see if the U.S. side uses it as well,” said Ambassador Daniel Kritenbrink, a partner at the Asia Group who served as assistant secretary of state

Han Lin, China Country Director of The Asia Group noted that nonetheless, “stabilizing ties with Washington could help reassure multinational firms that China remains commercially viable despite geopolitical tensions.”

“I think first and foremost, there’s likely to be a reaffirmation and extension of the truce in the trade war that was reached,” said Evan Medeiros, a senior adviser at the Asia Group. “So basically, take the agreements at Busan and just extend them for another year or more.” In addition, he said, “I think there’s likely

Evan Medeiros, a former adviser to president Barack Obama, said Beijing would only help on Iran “if they got paid handsomely”, such as with a US policy shift on Taiwan. “Historically, Iran has been an exceptionally useful piece of leverage for China against the US,” Medeiros said.