Trump Complicates Planned Summit with Xi

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Andy’s viewOver an ice-breaker dinner with Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, early in his first administration, Donald Trump sprung a surprise on his guest: Just as the chocolate cake arrived, the American leader told his Chinese counterpart that he was unleashing a missile barrage against Syria.Once again, Trump has caught Xi off guard, this time by deploying lethal military force against Iran, another of Beijing’s friends in the Middle East — only wee…

Trump's Removal of Another Xi Friend Complicates Planned Summit

(Bloomberg) — One month before President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are set to convene at a much-touted summit in China, the US leader’s toppling of another friend of China risks stoking tensions between the world’s biggest economies.

Trump’s Removal of Another Xi Friend Complicates Planned Summit

One month before President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are set to convene at a much-touted summit in China, the US leader’s toppling of another friend of China risks stoking tensions between the world’s biggest economies.

Trump Complicates Planned Summit with Xi

“One month before President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are set to convene at a much-touted summit in China, the U.S. leader’s toppling of another friend of China risks stoking tensions between the world’s biggest economies,” Bloomberg reports. “After US and Israeli military strikes on Iran wiped out the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday called it ‘unacceptable to openly kill the leader of a sovereign …