What's really at stake in Trump's Beijing trip?

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  The world holds its breath for the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping

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  and U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing.

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  It is the first visit by a U.S. President in almost 10 years,

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  with many describing it as having the potential to determine the relationship between the world's two

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  largest economies over the next decade.

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  What exactly has changed and what remains the same since President Trump's last visit in November 2017?

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  Trajectory of China-US relations and in a world undergoing profound changes and uncertainty,

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  can it offer a beacon of hope and stability?

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  Welcome to this edition of The Point with me, Liu Xin.

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  Joining us to unpack all this, we have from Singapore,

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  George Yeo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore and here in the Beijing studio,

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  Zhao Hai, Director of International Political Studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy.

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  Gentlemen, welcome to The Point.

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  Mr Yeo, let me go to you first.

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  Now, this is the first visit to China by a U.S. President in almost nine years.

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  As I said, what is the biggest thing that has changed?

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  In the international landscape.

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  China has become relatively stronger.

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