I read another article today about how President Trump and President Xi Jinping will be meeting today to further relations between the two countries. The article highlighted the issues currently between the United States and China, particularly regarding the nuclear threat posed by the North Koreans (more specifically US involvement to counter this threat such as the THAAD system being installed) and the economic relationship between the two states with each being quite interdependent on the other. This article however seemed a little more prone to depict the US as being more reliant on the Chinese than the Chinese are on the US….this seems a bit unfounded to me. True the Chinese are our second most important import/export trade partner (second to Canada as noted in the article), however this would mean the Chinese are equally dependent on the US market to keep up their economy as well. Because of these pressing matters at hand, it would seem that both of these states President’s will need to establish a more workable framework that will allow for compromise between the two states. Maybe the US could take a softer stance against North Korea and its THAAD missile sites if the Chinese were to rein in their annoying little neighbor. Regardless, the US and China need to work together in the future. Our economies are closely knit together, and the better each can work together the stronger each country will be.

Source: http://www.chinabusinessreview.com/trump-meets-xi/