China Economic Comment "Continuation of strategic stability" Song

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China Economic Comment "Continuation of strategic stability" Song

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14 May 2026ab

China Economic Comment Economics

ChinaContinuation of strategic stability

Yu Song

Economist

President Xi and President Trump met in Beijing. The U.S. delegation included a group of yu-za.song@ubs.com

+86-10-5832 8508

business leaders predominantly drawn from the technology and financial sectors.

Grace Wang

Vice President HAN Zheng greeted President Trump at the airport. This could be

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considered a signal of respect since this is as senior as it gets. grace-zc.wang@ubs.com

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The bilateral meeting lasted two hours and fifteen minutes, significantly longer than the William Deng

roughly one hour and forty minutes of the meeting held in Korea in late October last Economist

year. william-w.deng@ubs.com

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The two sides jointly proposed establishing a “constructive and strategically stable Jennifer Zhong

China–U.S. relationship”. This framework encompasses four dimensions: positive Economist

stability centered on cooperation, constructive stability characterized by managed S1460516050002

competition, manageable stability based on controlled differences, and durable stability jennifer-a.zhong@ubs.com

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oriented toward long-term peace. The new positioning is intended to serve as strategic

guidance for China–U.S. relations over the next three years and beyond (implicitly the

current presidential term).

President Trump expressed his intention to “build the best-ever U.S.–China

relationship”.

China explicitly emphasized that the Taiwan question remains the most important and

sensitive issue in bilateral relations, underscoring that maintaining peace and stability