US strategy tends to go like this:
1) US President meets foreign leaders and wheels and deals and makes promises to get what he and his team wants
2) With those promises, the US President will say he'll try to convince ppl in Congress, this is so as to make him the Good Cop to Congress' Bad Cop. In ancient times, emissaries claimed they had to win over the war party or other factions in court, or this Prince or that Prince didn't like it. This example is infamously displayed
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3) Once Deep State USG gets what it wants, trade concessions etc, they'll get bad cop Congress to publicly shoot down the good cop President's proposals and concessions to the foreign nation.
4) Rinse and Repeat.
Current USG is attempting to apply this strategy to get China to fund USG and save them from GFC Mk II by sending Yellen and Raimondo, and begging for a meeting with Blinken and Biden. But to no avail. Their whole entire strategy of getting China to agree to 'guardrails' is so they can keep pulling the double face game, remember that these are the people who pioneered Grayzone warfare.
Funny how the CIA apologists and spin doctors are trying to claim the dalai lama wasn't trying to mouth rape a child. That's like trying to compare Biden kissing kids to how the french do La Bise.