In less than two years, Trump launched attacks against the liberal agenda in nearly every field and put a significant dent in the economic, cultural, social, political and military progress of the last 50 years. And he paid a price on Tuesday.

The “allied scale” strategy proposed by Rush Doshi and Kurt Campbell, which could have the power to unite the U.S. and its allies in an economic bloc to counter China, is likely doomed by U.S. domestic politics. As allies might demand trade concessions that cost American jobs in politically sensitive areas, the resulting backlash would unravel the bloc. With this, U.S. leaders should consider more cooperative approaches toward China instead.

President Trump’s efforts to maintain stable U.S.-China relations face resistance from anti-China hawks within his own party. Despite positive developments from recent bilateral summits, disagreements over Taiwan, nuclear weapons, and China’s growing global influence raise questions about whether Trump can sustain his cooperative approach to Beijing.

U.S. President Donald Trump views allies as a security burden while championing the sovereignty of great powers. This has forced the EU to accelerate efforts to consolidate its role in regional security—ostensibly to ease America’s burden but in reality to protect itself.

A potential candidate for president in 2028, Rubio appeared to be using the speech to show American conservatives that Trumpism can transcend Trump’s personal style—that it can be inherited and carried forward by establishment elites.

It is not merely a political narrative in the race for global leadership in next-generation intelligent technologies. Superintelligence is an emerging reality. As AI advances to the super stage, the strategic relationships between major powers will be profoundly reshaped.

At the recent summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, China’s primary objective was to prevent tensions from escalating further. From that perspective, it was largely successful.

My first in-depth interaction with Tung Chee Hwa came at a time of crisis. In April 2001, an American EP-3 spy plane had just collided with a Chinese military jet and was forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan Island. At the time, I was running a Morgan Stanley investment tour of China for about fifteen of the world’s most prominent and deep-pocketed investors, most of whom had never been to China before.

The summit showed that differences can be bridged on competitive issues such as AI governance, trade stability, climate change, public health and transnational crime. That that bridge can model ways of working together that can help solve other problems.

At the Washington summit it was more than obvious that China-U.S. cooperation is essential and must continue despite any potholes in the road. Neither country, nor the world, can afford to have the wheels come off.