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The talks, which lasted more than two hours and 15 minutes, were widely seen as a significant step toward stabilizing China-US relations amid growing global uncertainty. Politicians, scholars and business leaders from around the world said the meeting sent a positive and reassuring signal to the international community, as relations between the world's two largest economies remain critical to global stability, trade and growth.
Above ground, birch trees and Douglas firs compete fiercely for sunlight. But below ground, their roots are connected by a network of fungi in the soil, and through that network, the trees exchange carbon. The competition above ground is real, but so is the cooperation below. This is closer to the actual structure of the China-US relations than any image of scorpions in a bottle.