Trump and Xi meet on a 'rotting' diplomatic foundation

As Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for his third meeting in less than a year with U.S. President Donald Trump, calm seems to prevail in the relationship. This is a dangerous illusion.The sense of stability is breeding complacency on both sides even as pressure builds up under the surface. We may be throwing away our last opening to put the world’s most important bilateral relationship on a solid foundation.In keeping with the slogan on which the two sides agreed at their May meeting in Beijing, the U.S. and China are supposedly building a relationship of “constructive strate