CNN: President Donald Trump departed Beijing Friday afternoon local time without any immediate sign that the US and China have resolved thorny challenges dogging their fractious relationship, but with a freshly stabilized relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping – for now…
Trump and Xi Play Up Stability Without Resolving Major Tensions
President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, emphasized stability on Friday as they concluded a high-stakes summit in Beijing, though without announcing any clear resolutions on trade, Taiwan, the war in Iran or other major points of contention.
Sitting beside Mr. Xi during a meeting at Zhongnanhai, the walled headquarters for China’s ruling Communist Party, Mr. Trump said that the Chinese leader had “become really a friend” and that they felt similarly about the war…
Trump leaves Beijing with few wins but warm words for Xi
In another sign of a diminished scale of the summit, Trump’s readout did not mention the broad structural reforms on which previous presidents pressed Xi.
Unlike on his previous trip in 2017, Trump did not discuss “structural reforms,” “global economic governance” or the “international trading system” with Xi, according to the readout…
Trump Announces Boeing Jet Order From China. Beijing Stays Silent.
The deal, if it materializes, would be a major win for Boeing, which has lost ground to Airbus in one of the world’s largest aviation markets…
America’s most powerful CEOs don’t have much to show from their China trip so far
“The summit has much more on positive atmospherics than deliverables, or at least on what China will officially acknowledge,” said Han Shen Lin, the Shanghai-based China country director at U.S. consultancy firm The Asia Group.
“Nonetheless, if Beijing doesn’t give Trump enough ‘wins’ to take home, the risk is that in his disappointment, Trump steps back and lets his more hawkish administration drive the bilateral relationship. This will undoubtedly take us on the road to escalation.”…
Xi Warned of the ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What Is It?
Mr. Xi cited the concept, popularized in recent decades, as he warned that Beijing and Washington could enter an “extremely dangerous place” if President Trump sought to impede China as it asserted itself over Taiwan…
Trump Was Flattering, Xi Was Resolute. The Difference Spoke Volumes.
Mr. Xi, unsurprisingly, spent little time Thursday on flattery. Once the 21-gun salute and precision-marching by units of the People’s Liberation Army were finished, the disciplined Chinese leader plunged right away into setting boundaries for the two countries’ relations. The red line was Taiwan, he said, making it abundantly clear that Mr. Trump’s effort at rapprochement could crash on takeoff if he interferes with China’s long-term effort to take control of the self-governing island…
US Expects China to Commit Billions for American Farm Goods, Greer Says
“We expect to also see an agreement for double-digit billion purchases of ags over the next three years, per year, coming out of this visit, and that’s more general, that’s aggregate, that’s not just soybeans, that’s everything else,” Greer told Bloomberg Television in an interview on Friday…
Trump Says China’s Xi Likes the Idea of Buying More Oil From US
China’s official statements have so far not mentioned energy as a topic the two leaders have discussed, but did say the Middle East was addressed…
Xi Jinping tells Nvidia, Tesla and Apple CEOs that China will ‘open wider’
According to the report, the American business leaders “expressed that they attach great importance” to China’s market and hope to deepen their operations in the country…
Beijing’s ‘Industrial Policy of Everything’ Leaves Rest of the World in the Dust
In the decades since China joined the world economy, U.S. presidents have traveled to Beijing with a predictable list of demands: stop stealing American intellectual property, don’t force technology transfer, open your markets. Donald Trump followed the script on his previous visit in 2017.
Whether he does so again this week, it would be pointless. Those demands reflect a view of Chinese industrial policy (broadly, government support for favored sectors) that is woefully out of date…
Trump’s and Xi’s Body Language at the Summit Mirrored Their Styles
Instead, experts said, the body language suggested Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi were each striking a conciliatory pose, each in their own style and reflecting their countries’ complicated relationship. Since the Trump administration’s aggressive trade moves against China last year, and Beijing’s countermeasures, the two countries have adopted a tentative truce…
Donald Trump’s allies pin hopes on Xi Jinping to defuse Strait of Hormuz crisis
China’s president has given no indication that he will help the US reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway that has been mostly closed since Trump launched the war alongside Israel in February.
But Republicans concerned about their party’s election prospects in November say Beijing’s close ties to Tehran — and dependence on Iranian crude — is an opening…
China turns to US for help as Iran war upends plastics industry
China’s desperation for raw materials to make plastics has driven US ethane exports to record levels, even as the two countries are locked in disputes over everything from Iran to semiconductors…
Donald Trump’s China trip melds corporate interests and communist pomp
But in China, Trump’s stance towards Xi was being portrayed almost as supplication.
…When translating Trump’s remarks from English to Mandarin, Chinese state media also used a common practice that makes Xi look superior. They portrayed Trump as using a formal form of the Chinese word for “you” that signals respect when addressing Xi. The Chinese leader, on the other hand, used the more common form of “you” when he addressed his US guest…
Why Taiwan Is the Hottest Issue Between the US and China
Although China’s Communist Party has never ruled Taiwan, it views control over the island as essential to completing its goal of reversing China’s “century of humiliation” by colonial powers.
…To the US and Japan, Taiwan is a vital stronghold in a string of archipelagos that they rely upon to contain China and safeguard trade routes…