Episode 33: Presidents Trump & Xi Jinping Summit meeting analysis from US & China

Besides Chinese and Americans, the entire world awaits the upcoming Xi-Trump meeting scheduled for May 14/15 2026. President Trump is determined to remake and/or recalibrate America’s trade and security equation with China. Can he? On the other hand, many geopolitical experts believe the American president has been so weakened by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that he has few cards to play at the Summit meeting and will do whatever he can to salvage his agenda. However, it is always a mistake to underestimate an American president and that applies ever more to the mercurial Mr. Trump.Regardless of where the chips fall, Polaris-Live, in conjunctions with the Beijing Club for International Dialogue has put together a one hour special program featuring two of the top experts on  U.S. and China financial, trade, and geopolitical relations to offer our viewers the earlies possible analysis of what happened or did not happen at the summit from both a Chinese and American perspectives. The one hour program will be moderated jointly by Ms. Han Hua, co-founder and General Secretary of the Beijing Club and Sarwar Kashmeri, Founder and Host, Polaris-Live.comAnother example of why we frequently use the phrase "only on Polaris-Live" to illuminate this channels leadership in bringing early, deep, opinions on U.S.-China relations in a style that non-experts can understand. In this instance through the eyes of Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (ret) and Managing Director Marc Chandler one of Wall Street's most experienced foreign currency and trade specialists.------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guests:ZHOU BOSenior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and a retired Senior Colonel in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.He has published more than 180 English essays and opinions in leading publications including Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and broadcast media including  BBC, NBC, DW, and is a speaker at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore and at Munich Security conference.  His new book is "Should the World Fear China?" Hurst Publishers, Oxford University Press .MARC CHANDLERManaging Director and Chief Market Strategist for Bannockburn Global Forex. He has covered global capital markets for more than 30 years.A prolific writer and speaker, Chandler appears regularly in the financial media including Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and the Washington Post, among others. Marc also provides his insights and commentary on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, CNN, and Fox Business. His publications include, Making Sense of the Dollar and Political Economy of Tomorrow. Chandler is also an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, Associate Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and visiting professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Host: HUA HANMs. Han Hua is the co-founder and secretary general of the Beijing Club for International Dialogue. Hua is a veteran journalist, international political scholar and commentator. She was a core member of the press corps covering the state visits of Chinese leaders for six years, and served as vice-president of News Corporation Greater China for nearly a decade. Before the Beijing Club, Hua was the founding board member of the China Forum at Tsinghua University. She holds a BA from Shanghai International Studies University and an MBA from both Beijing University and Fordham University.