For this post I read an article from the Washington Post about Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his recent meetings with the Chinese leadership in Beijing. Tillerson is attempting to build a constructive and mutually beneficial relationship with China.  He and president Xi Jinping both believe that the U.S. and China relationship needs to be defined by cooperation and friendship.  However, he has received some criticism for “handing China a victory.”  This is because there seems to be a disconnect between what the U.S. and China’s definitions are for “mutually beneficial.”  This Chinese believe this means that this means that each side will respect eachother’s core interests respectively.  In other words, this means the United States will not contest China on hot-button issues such as Taiwan, Tibet, and Hong Kong.  China also seems to not understand what might entail the United States core interests.  At the same time, Donald Trump publicly criticized China and branded them a security threat.  In order to combat all of this, the United States and China need to come to some sort of mutual understanding on what their mutual interests are, in order to alleviate Trumps fears about China as a threat to our security.