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INDIA LISTEN CLOSELY TO FAWNING TRUMP HERE IN BEIJING SITTING OPPOSITE TO PRESIDENT XI. This isn't a reset in U.S.-China ties. It appears to be Trump managing an increasing disproportionality in great power equations. It reflects sections of D.C.'s ruling establishment recognising that China today may have more immediate economic leverage to offer the U.S. than the other way round. It suggests that, for the time being, America may be putting any pretensions of containing China specifically in the Indo-Pacific on the back burner. It also signals that QUAD and AUKUS may no longer occupy the same priority they once did in Trump's strategic grand plans. In fact Trump has taken, in his words, "30 global business czars, the no.1 not no.2" to China not to up sticks but to double down on trade ties. Trump has recognized that attempts at full-spectrum economic decoupling from China are neither practical nor desirable. Which means that terms like "off-shoring" and "China+1" may increasingly look like shibboleths from a moment in time that no longer fully represents global economic realities.