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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, December 21st. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Since taking office a year ago, the Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate Accord,

canceled its participation in the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership

negotiations, slashed foreign aid and contributions to the UN, and gutted the State Department.

During Trump's campaign, he often accused China of waging economic war against the U.S.

But in his presidency so far, he struck a different tone.

Here he is in November during his first trip to Beijing after a long diplomatic meeting

with China's leader Xi Jinping.

Both the United States and China will have a more prosperous future if we can achieve a level

economic playing field.

Right now, unfortunately, it is a very one-sided and unfair one. But, but I don't blame China. After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens?

I give China great credit.

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