Chinese leader Xi Jinping opened Wednesday’s high-stakes meeting with President Trump by ominously raising the prospect of a future war between the US and China.  Xi made reference to a geopolitical concept known as the Thucydides trap, which posits that there is a high probability of a violent clash when a rising power challenges the ruling hegemon.  “The whole world is watching our meeting,” Xi said inside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, with Trump seated across the table.  “Currently, transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe, and the international situation is fluid and turbulent,” he…

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President Donald Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping as “a Leader of extraordinary distinction” while en route to Beijing on Wednesday — a warm tone that contrasts sharply with warnings from some of his closest conservative policy allies, who say U.S. security and economic interests demand a tougher line. Traveling…

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