Sisi Calls for US-Egypt Free Trade Zone in Meeting with US Chamber of Commerce

The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.

Washington, however, is not merely a policymaking capital. It is also a highly competitive marketplace of narratives.

The summits are not endpoints. They are the mechanism by which two countries, which can neither resolve their differences nor afford to rupture them, manage the interval between crises.

A negotiated deal remains possible. Both sides will have to make compromises but that route must be explored extensively.