A lasting thaw with China? History would say don't bet on it.

For a longer perspective on this week's meeting between President Biden and Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, it's worth looking back at a comparable event exactly 30 years ago.

In 1993, Jiang Zemin, then China's party leader, flew to Seattle and met with President Bill Clinton during the first gathering of top leaders of the recently formed Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). That Clinton-Jiang meeting served to shape the direction of U.S. relations with China for years to come, and it serves as a baseline for seeing where the two countries stand today. Some of the dynamics underlying that earlier meeting have endured, while others have changed dramatically.

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