Rohit Kachroo Trump's biggest failure as a leader will lead to a new conflict : Forget, for a moment, the pageantry. The flag-waving children. The language of partnership and apparent mutual respect. Because beneath the choreography in Beijing sat the subject Washington still prefers to discuss obliquely: the growing possibility that the United States and China are moving towards a confrontation over Taiwan. If anything, after this summit, that prospect feels less remote.