Commentary: A delayed Trump-Xi summit is not all bad for China

US President Donald Trump’s request to delay a much-anticipated summit with his Chinese counterpart will work in Xi Jinping’s favour, says Karishma Vaswani for Bloomberg Opinion. Still, Xi will want nothing to get in the way of a successful summit as a longer, open-ended postponement would suggest the relationship is drifting and it would then be hard for even diplomacy at the highest level to stabilise it. Leader-to-leader diplomacy is critical, notes Dylan Loh, an associate professor at the Singapore-based NTU.

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