"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."
But nearly a quarter century after the September 11 attacks, Americans still view international terrorism as among the most critical threats to the United States.
"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.