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What Comes Next For President Trump And China?

NPR

Published July 6, 2017 at 1:40 PM EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump (left) sits with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

Longtime China watcher John Pomfret says President Trump’s surprisingly friendly start to his relationship with China is now on shakier ground.

For a look at the relationship as Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend the G-20 meeting in Germany, Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins talk with Pomfret (@JEPomfret), a former Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post and author of “The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to Present.”