Washington (CNN) There's been a whole lot of winning so far during the Trump presidency -- for China. Trump's decision to anchor US-China relations on a hyper-personal relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping also opens the US President to the possibility of manipulation. Last weekend, Trump shelved his threat of waging a trade war with China -- perhaps after concluding, at least for now, that it would not be so easy to win as he predicted. I don't think anybody has ever been treated better in China -- ever in their history," Trump said on Wednesday. Friedberg suggested that Trump's backward step on ZTE could start to convince China that the President is a "paper tiger."

Source: CNN May 24, 2018 04:52 UTC