Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story, this is the point.
On January 20, Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States,
declaring that the golden age of America begins right now.
Han Zheng,
Chinese President Xi Jinping's special representative and vice president of China attended the inauguration ceremony,
marking the first time a senior Chinese official has participated in the U.S.
presidential inauguration.
Just days before the big event, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with Trump on the phone at the latter's request.
And according to the official news agency Xinhua,
both leaders expressed the hope that ties will get off to a good start in Trump's new term.
How will the world's two largest economies handle their relationship,
especially given that Trump's pick for Secretary of State is currently on China's sanctions list?
How will this impact the rest of the world, particularly the global South?
Welcome to a special edition of The Point with me, Liu Xin, coming to you from Beijing.
I'm pleased to be joined from Washington, D.C.
by Peter Kutznick, history professor and director of Nuclear Studies Institute at American University,
from New York City by Margaret Kimberley, executive editor with Black Agenda Report.
From Shanghai, I'm Professor Huang Jing, director of the Institute of the U.S.
and Pacific Studies at Shanghai International Studies University.
And here in the studio by Aina Tangin, senior fellow at Taihe Institute.