Episode 31: Pamela Crossley - Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, China, U.S. and the World

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to have a summit meeting in Beijing on the 14 and 15 of May 2026. China seems to loom over the United States in its perpetually calm ascendency to the global leadership position. Polaris-Live founder and host Sarwar Kashmeri visited China a few days ago and found himself in country devoid of wars and killing. A modern country of trains that run at 345 km/hour, a digital economy, with confident and forward looking people.One of the world's most recognized China historians Pamela Crossley caught up with Sarwar as Polaris-Live begins an in depth coverage of the Trump-Xi Summit to ask him about his visit and set the stage for analyzing the Summit meeting. ----------------------------------------------Pamela CrossleyProfessor Pamela Crossley is one of the world's leading historians of modern China, northern Asia, and global history. She is a specialist in the history of China's last empire, the Qing, but has written books on early modern and modern Chinese history, Central Asian history, and global history. Her work is widely published both in scholarly journals and in newspapers, and magazines for the general public. Crossley is author of The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800: An Interpretive History (2010), as well as influential studies of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and leading textbooks in global history. Her forthcoming book is China's Global Empire: Qing, 1636-1912, from Cambridge University Press. She is freshly retired from Dartmouth College.