![President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping shake hands]() Kylie Cooper/ReutersIn rolling out the red carpet for Xi this week, Trump underscored how rapidly the balance of power in the US-China relationship has shifted, Semafor’s Andy Browne writes. The turning point came last year, when China made the ultimate power move, threatening to choke off rare earths — and turn US factories dark — after Trump ramped up tariffs on Chinese goods to more than 140%. Trump backed down, and at the time, Rush Doshi, a Georgetown University professor and former Biden administration official, wrote that China had proved itself to be a “true peer” of the US, unafraid to push back. Dolshi’s take on this week’s arrival ceremony, which also included a 21-gun salute and a flyover by B-1B bombers — far exceeding courtesies extended to Trump in Beijing in May — has been that China believes “they’ve basically tamed the United States.” |