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Increased interaction with leaders can be a learning process and help the US president reassure America’s allies, particularly in Asia, and preserve US interests

International diplomacy works best when each side recognises the limits of the other side and both offer to accommodate each other.

A coherent Washington policy towards its allies will reassure them and send a message to Beijing that its belligerence will have consequences