Officials and institutions in both countries, across all fields and at every level, must follow through on the important understandings reached by the two presidents.
What America’s allies fear most is not that the United States will back down, but that it no longer knows what it is fighting for, yet refuses to stop.
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.