Xi vs djt - China Summit 2026: The Lecturer and Philosopher King vs The Other Guy

[Dante]

It's your cities that are...

We have no "our cities" to go with your Strawmen. Maybe try a rural area.

 

[Mac1958]

Trump took a truckload of CEOs with him, so some "deals" presumably will be struck there.

Enough to quickly change the financial situation so many Americans find themselves in, as our K-Shaped economy gets more K-Shaped? Doubtful.

He and his pals will get some coin though, I'm sure. Right, Witkoff?

 

[JohnDB]

Iran agreed long ago not to develop a Nuke Bomb.

facts matter

And Iran is paying a price for lying.

And the reason why we want the nuclear materials from Iran is that we believe Obama gave them some....and the analysis will tell us precisely where it came from.

 

[Dante]

Xi is dangerous. He’s doesn't believe anything we believe and would willingly put us under his thumb the way he has China. My greatest fear right now is that Trump’s love of authoritarians will lead him to sell out Taiwan for the rare earths that he wasted in a war of choice with Iran.

Dangerous? Leaving Xi aside, China is a competitor as well as an adversary. Even Dope Donald knows we need them as much as they need us.

now please, stop lowering the level of discussion here.

btw, what is your interest in "Taiwan?"

 

[Billiejeens]

Xi is no philosopher-king. He’s an old man clinging to power by any means necessary, like Trump.

President Trump's means is to win elections by landslide margins.

 

[Dante]

And Iran is paying a price for lying.

And the reason why we want the nuclear materials from Iran is that we believe Obama gave them some....and the analysis will tell us precisely where it came from.

Iran will survive. And a day of reckoning will eventually come. The handwriting is on the wall. Curse Trump and Netanyahu. They did this.

 

[JohnDB]

 

[JohnDB]

Iran will survive. And a day of reckoning will eventually come. The handwriting is on the wall. Curse Trump and Netanyahu. They did this.

Of course Iran will survive.....the muslims wont but nobody will miss them.

 

[Dante]

President Trump's means is to win elections by landslide margins.

Except Trump never had anything approaching a landslide win.

You and he can try and claim an ec win is a landslide, while ignoring the people -- the popular vote - public support for anything. Imbeciles like you parrot Trump "Won most votes" ignoring more people voting , so it's percentages of any vote you must ignore

 

[konradv]

Dangerous? Leaving Xi aside, China is a competitor as well as an adversary. Even Dope Donald knows we need them as much as they need us.

now please, stop lowering the level of discussion here.

btw, what is your interest in "Taiwan?"

Quit shilling for authoritarians. Taiwan is a major source of state-of-the- art computer chips. Why would anyone want an authoritarian regime to have that kind of access.?

 

[Dante]

If Xi blows anymore smoke up Trump's fat, lily white arse, Trump will float away.

 

[Hafar1014]

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The Lecturer and Philosopher King: Xi Jinping Behind Closed Doors | Encounters with other world leaders reveal a side of China’s leader that the public rarely sees, and offer clues to how he will approach President Trump in Beijing.
- David Pierson | May 13, 2026

More than halfway through his third term as China’s leader, Xi Jinping still remains one of the most opaque figures in global politics, his views on rivals and partners inferred from the tightly controlled choreography of his public appearances.

But in private meetings with foreign leaders, captured in the accounts of those who were there, along with the occasional hot mic, a sharper portrait emerges. It is of a leader who has no close rivals for power in China, who does not hesitate to lecture less powerful leaders, and who carries himself as a philosopher king in the mold of ancient Chinese rulers.

And by at least one account, Mr. Xi formed his verdict of President Trump nearly a decade ago — a judgment likely to have shaped his approach to global affairs ever since, including how he handles Mr. Trump this week in Beijing.

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It was late 2016, and Mr. Trump had just stunned the world weeks earlier by winning the U.S. presidential election. Mr. Xi was meeting President Obama for the final time at a summit in Lima, Peru, and he had questions.

Mr. Xi seemed baffled as to how American voters could choose someone so unconventional, according to Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration who attended the meeting.

Mr. Obama tried to explain to Mr. Xi that Mr. Trump’s rise was a sign of economic frustration in the United States, in part over the loss of manufacturing jobs to China and the theft of intellectual property. Mr. Xi, in Mr. Rhodes’s telling, was displeased with the explanation.

He put down his pen, folded his arms and said: “If an immature leader throws the world into chaos, then the world will know who to blame.”

Now, as he heads into a summit with Mr. Trump in Beijing, Mr. Xi will want to present China as a stable and strong global power, analysts say, while being conciliatory enough to preserve a fragile trade truce with Mr. Trump.

“I expect that Xi will show Trump respect but not flatter him,” said Susan Shirk, the author of “Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise.”

“The contrast with Trump’s unilateral and disruptive actions will be implicit, not explicit,” she added.

DANTE'S WORDS: We must say, we see the very realistic fears many people have that Trump will get rolled over, walk away and call it a win. We believe that these fears are keeping many people awake at night. Realistic fears based on a public record of Trump doing just that.



DANTE'S WORDS: Any scenario we can see, has the USA eventually coming out a loser.

Hes a communist parasite they are all the same. Trump has him over a barrel and he knows it. America now controls 40% of Chinas oil. We will arm Taiwan keeping them free form the tyranny of communism.

 

[Hafar1014]

If Xi blows anymore smoke up Trump's fat, lily white arse, Trump will float away.

I see the democrats have you flaoting

 

[Dante]

Quit shilling for authoritarians. Taiwan is a major source of state-of-the- art computer chips. Why would anyone want an authoritarian regime to have that kind of access.?

"Shilling for authoritarians?" That's MAGA's job when defending Trump's embrace of them.

Plato's philosopher king (introduced in The Republic around 375 BC) is a hypothetical ruler merging absolute wisdom with political power, designed to create a perfect society (Kallipolis). Historically and theoretically, this model is positioned against democratic rule, tyranny/autocracy, and average human nature, as Plato argued only philosophers could prioritize the common good over personal ambition.

Versus Tyranny (The Strongman) Trump: While often confused with a dictator, the philosopher king is defined as selfless and disinterested in personal power, aiming to serve, unlike the "strongman" tyrant who rules via power for self-gratification.

 

[Dante]

Hes a communist parasite they are all the same. Trump has him over a barrel and he knows it. America now controls 40% of Chinas oil. We will arm Taiwan keeping them free form the tyranny of communism.

 

[Hafar1014]

Imagine Biden in China farting in their faces, pooping in his pants and wandering around lost in space

 

[JohnDB]

If Xi blows anymore smoke up Trump's fat, lily white arse, Trump will float away.

My oh my how the narrative has changed when it met with reality.

Is China going to keep its promises? Proof is in the pudding....and Xi would do well to remember that. So we will watch and see. So will Trump. He isn't much for acting like a simp.

 

[Billiejeens]

This thread is absolutely rubber room material.

 

[Dante]

My oh my how the narrative has changed when it met with reality.

Is China going to keep its promises? Proof is in the pudding....and Xi would do well to remember that. So we will watch and see. So will Trump. He isn't much for acting like a simp.

Try reading earlier posts in this thread.

then

 

[Dante]

This thread is absolutely rubber room material.

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