Xi Jinping is heading to Washington on September 24th, but is this summit a genuine reset, or just China managing an American system that can no longer manage itself? I am joined by Einar Tangen, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation and Chairman of Asia Narratives, to unpack why Trump's own Beijing visit was quietly declared a failure, and why Beijing now approaches these encounters with a rehearsed playbook rather than any real expectation of breakthrough. Einar traces the roots of America's dysfunction back to the Powell Memo, the decades-long financialization of an economy that rewards betting over building, and an oligarchy that has hollowed out its own middle class while blaming China for the damage. We discuss why the United States increasingly resembles a rogue state even by its own definition, and how China' ...