From more perspective on the summit, we turn now to Nicholas Burns.

He served as U.S. ambassador to China during the Biden administration.

He's now professor of the practice of diplomacy and international relations at Harvard University.

Ambassador Burns, welcome back to the news hours.

Good to see you.

Thank you, Omna.

So let me ask you what we heard from Chinese state media.

I've been reporting after the summit that Trump and Xi reached a new series of common understandings, a new vision of the U.S.-China

relationship. What are they saying here? And is that good for the U.S.? The Chinese want a strategic

stability initiative, as they're calling it, with the United States. It's really a set of, as I understand it, of formal obligations of one to the other.

That could be a poison pill.

For instance, they might want to say to us, and I think they would, you can't criticize

us in public because we have this formal stability relationship.

Well, of course, we can't abide that, given the enormous differences we have on issue after issue. I was reassured that the Trump administration did not pick up in it. You didn't hear President Trump or Secretary of State Rubio say that they were intrigued by it. They've tried this in the past, Omna. We've always turned them down. What about what we did here from President Trump during this trip?

He was very upbeat about all the meetings. He called them extremely positive, very productive.

He praised Xi Jinping quite a bit, called him a great leader, said repeatedly what an honor

it was to be there and to be his friend. What did you make of that approach?

You know, it's understandable that President Trump wanted to be polite and civil. He's visiting

someone else's country. That's, I think, all Americans would want him to be polite and civil.

But to effusively praise Xi Jinping as a great leader in positive terms and that he he president trump will have a fantastic

relationship with him which is the word he used i thought it was over the top and from chinese

years it sounded like president trump was a supplicant and therefore in a weakened position in

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