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"The two leaders managed to really marginalize the differences between them and focus on the relationship," Leslie Vinjamuri says.

"Around the world, autocrats have recognized the power of comedians to puncture preferred narratives, undermine authority and stoke dissent," Suzanne Nossel writes.

"Business and economics will be front and center," Julián Ventura says, noting the upcoming review of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.

A new Chicago Council survey finds Republicans stand apart in backing U.S. support for Israel during the war in Gaza.

"Mass citizen protests have driven the region’s most dramatic political changes in recent years," Paul Staniland writes.

"Donald Trump, at some level, approaches this visit from a position of great strength," Leslie Vinjamuri tells BBC News. "For the prime minister, it's a very different story."

Karl Friedhoff weighs in on the challenges shaping South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's early leadership.

"We do see a high degree of confidence in China, in the Chinese public, in their country, and the direction that the government is taking their country," Dina Smeltz explains, citing new Council-Carter Center data.

"Until the great powers can either agree—or at least agree to disagree—on what comes next, the new world order will remain radically incomplete," Daniel Drezner argues.

"Even leaders of countries with strongly independent central banks have chafed against the orthodoxy" of current macroeconomic policy, Paul Poast writes.