Chess between Xi and Trump: Games within the game

Chess between Xi and Trump: Games within the game

Here is the scene: two powerful men at a chessboard, pieces mid-game, faces visible, the geometry of the board slowly revealing who holds the advantage. The players are Xi and Trump, two of the most consequential men alive, each convinced of his own historical necessity, each managing an empire of leverage and calculation. When they finally sit across from each other in Beijing on May 14 and 15, a summit postponed once by the very war that has r…