Trump-Xi Meeting: ‘Anti-China Card’ Has Lost Impact: KMT Lawmaker
Trump and Xi signaled a shift from trade-war rhetoric toward long-term stability as US-China trade fell about 30% in 2025, McKinsey said.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump greeted Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews, a rare diplomatic gesture signaling both leaders' commitment to a "constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability."
- During Trump 1.0, Washington launched trade wars and technology sanctions on Chinese goods, while pushing multinational companies to adopt "China+1" by moving supply chains to Vietnam, India, or Mexico.
- American tech titans including Apple's Tim Cook and Tesla's Elon Musk recognize decoupling is failing; EnerVenue, a California battery startup, began mass production in Changzhou last week after abandoning a US$264 million Kentucky factory.
- Washington has effectively abandoned "China+1" as US-China trade fell around 30% in 2025, while Trump 2.0 now regards China as a critical supplier and the other half of the only G2 that matters.
- Despite ongoing rivalry and competition between the two great powers, the leaders committed to a "constructive" agenda placing the relationship at the level of long horizons and strategic stability for lasting mutual benefit.
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Trump-Xi summit bade farewell to 'China plus one'
President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington, greeting him in person at Joint Base Andrews, a rare gesture for an American president. Critics in both parties warned that the pageantry would reward a rival. However, the red carpet, the state dinner with its exquisite menu, […]
Scott Kennedy on the Xi-Trump summit and US-China instability
Scott Kennedy is a senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. His areas of focus include China’s hi-tech drive, US-China relations and global economic governance. SCMP Plus readers get early access to articles in the Open Questions series. How would you characterise the outcomes of the China-US summit compared to expectations going in? Is it largely a continuation of …
The American and Chinese presidents met for the second time this year, but the spectacular ceremonies could not hide the fact that they could not produce any serious results. Apart from an agreement on mutual tariff reductions and the establishment of communication channels, geopolitical issues were clearly put on the back burner.
Trump-Xi meeting: ‘Anti-China card’ has lost impact: KMT lawmaker
Last week’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) has rendered ineffective an “anti-China card” that Washington and Taipei could play together, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lee Yen-hsiu (李彥秀) said.Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan (彭麗媛), on Friday
Xi Leaves Washington, China’s Critical Minerals Leverage Remains.
President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington has concluded. For American manufacturers dependent on Chinese critical minerals, the most consequential result is what the governments have yet to announce: a concrete resolution of the supply restrictions affecting their businesses.
Sea and Trump define the boundaries for Chinese-American competition. The Interim Pause in the Trade War may be replaced by a further intensification of Man99re Mon, 09/28/2026 - 09:30 State visit by President Xi Jinping to the United States and his negotiations with President Trump took place against the backdrop of the October 2025 meeting of the leaders of the two countries in Busan, South Korea, of the relative truce between the countries in…
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