The first visit by a US president to China since 2017 is being misread by much of Western commentary as proof that American tariffs and technology restrictions have forced Beijing to the table, according to analysts. China, they argue, is a "high-fault-tolerance" system — one with a large internal market, centralised resource allocation, and long strategic planning horizons — that absorbs external pressure through incremental adjustment rather than policy reversal. The summit is better understood as routine recalibration in a changed environment than as a turning point, with core disputes likely to remain intact even as rhetoric moderates.