🇺🇸🇨🇳 just returned to a very different China from the one he faced in 2017.

Back then, the United States held clear economic leverage, tariffs were the primary weapon, and Beijing was largely seen as being on the defensive.

Today, that balance looks very different.

Over the past few years, China has shown a level of resilience that many global analysts didn’t expect. Despite aggressive tariff pressure and forecasts of major economic slowdown, Beijing continued posting strong growth while reshaping its global trade strategy.