# Pageantry can deceive: Xi’s visit is no equivalent of the Reagan-Gorbachev summits

https://mins.news/en/item/71994

- CNN, 2026-09-24 09:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/politics/trump-xi-meeting-china-ai?Date=20260924&Profile=CNN

> Stephen Collinson writes that the ceremony surrounding Xi Jinping’s state visit can be misleading. He argues that it is not comparable to the summits between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that helped put the Cold War on course for a soft landing.

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