Le Monde: In Taiwan, where one of the favorite pastimes is to analyze the Chinese power, many observers had tended to think, before Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, that the Chinese request to ask Washington to suspend its arms deliveries was, in fact, a bluff since “the Chinese side knows very well that it is an obligation for Americans to arm Taiwan in its defense.”
Any good negotiator demands much more than he wants to get. That’s what Xi Jinping did. And everything indicates that the king of the “art of the deal” did indeed fall into the panel, probably under the effect of the welcome full of pomp that the Chinese had concocted to him…