Stung by Iran war, Trump heads to China in need of wins
Trump seeks limited trade deals and presses Xi to help curb Iran as more than 60% of Americans disapprove of the war, Reuters/Ipsos found.
- President Donald Trump departs Tuesday for Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, seeking to strengthen trade ties while pressuring China to leverage its influence over Iran to end the two-month-old war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- Washington remains frustrated that China, Iran's largest oil customer, has not done more to curb Tehran's energy revenues, with the U.S. recently sanctioning independent Chinese "teapot" refineries purchasing more than 80% of Iranian crude oil.
- Last Friday, the State Department sanctioned four entities, including three China-based firms, for providing satellite imagery enabling Iranian military strikes, prompting Beijing to denounce the penalties as "illegal unilateral pressure."
- U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated the administration aims to avoid derailing broader relations during the talks, though the White House holds low expectations that Trump can persuade Xi to significantly alter China's posture toward Tehran.
- Trump plans to host Xi in Washington later this year, as both leaders seek to avoid repeating last year's trade war while navigating the current conflict's diplomatic complexities.
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President Donald Trump is set to leave for Beijing for high-stakes talks with President Xi Jinping. The U.S. has been trying to persuade China to use its influence over Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. President Donald Trump travels to China today and will meet Thursday and Friday with his counterpart Xi Jinping at the worst moment of his second term. Weakened by a strategic defeat in Iran, where after two and a half months he has not fulfilled any of his strategic objectives, and by polls that give him the worst approval rates of his decade in politics, the president will try to sell from Beijing a commercial victory to the American peop…
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