By Imran Khalid
By all appearances, the image from London of American and Chinese officials arrayed side by side indicates a moment of significant recalibration in one of the most consequential bilateral relationships of our time. In a world rocked by tariff tantrums, hawkish rhetoric and competitive decoupling, the recent China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism meeting in London offered something rare: a signal of strategic maturity and purposeful dialogue.