Iran's Hormuz Standoff Just Rewired Trump's Beijing Summit With Xi
The talks come as US and Chinese officials seek to preserve a trade truce while markets absorb the fallout from Iran-linked energy disruptions.
- President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet in Beijing this Thursday, May 14, 2026, marking their first face-to-face meeting since 2017.
- Following the Busan summit last October, the two leaders agreed to a one-year trade truce after Trump announced tariffs of over 100% on China during the summer of 2025.
- Amid the energy shock following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, both nations remain locked in mutual dependence on critical minerals and high-end semiconductors essential to their economies.
- The summit aims to address the U.S. trade deficit, with potential concessions from China on soybeans and beef that would benefit farmers in key Republican states such as Iowa.
- Beyond trade, leaders will navigate the sensitive Taiwan issue while Washington presses Vietnam and Malaysia to limit reliance on Chinese inputs for exports bound for the United States.
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'Big hug' or colder shoulder? Xi-Trump talks spotlight contrasting styles, expectations
Donald Trump has said he expects a "big, fat hug" from China's Xi Jinping when they meet in Beijing this week, though multiple thorny issues between the two sides could see the US president kept at arm's length.
The president meets this week with Xi Jinping and, as he himself would say, 'doesn't have the cards' to play as Trump would say to himself (and as he told Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski at his infamous White House meeting): 'You're not in a good position. You don't have the cards.' The American leader travels this Wednesday to China to a summit with Xi Jinping that will be one of the political quotes of the year on the US calendar (and c…
"Trump threw himself into the pool but there was not so much water. He has strangled the oil supply but control is not in his hands"/ "The fight for oil control and the tariff war are containment strategies"/ "China plays Go, a game of enormous complexity; Russia plays chess: strategy and deception; and the US plays poker: wins the most bluffs."
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Trump-Xi summit will be no ‘Nixon in China’ moment – that they are talking is enough for now
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