Xi Flexes Growing Legal Arsenal to Warn Trump Before Summit

Trump-Xi summit and emerging defence alliances reshape geopolitics

Statecraft with Geeta Mohan explores two major geopolitical developments that could reshape the global strategic landscape. The show examines the upcoming Donald Trump–Xi Jinping summit, asking whether rising sanctions, tensions over trade, AI, Taiwan and rare earths can be managed through diplomacy or if the meeting is merely a pause before deeper confrontation.

Xi flexes growing legal arsenal to warn Trump before summit

The speed and breadth of the latest barrage of countermeasures against the U.S. shows Beijing's ability to turn up the pressure while preserving room for de-escalation.

Analysis: As US and China throw up tit-for-tat sanctions, is Trump’s Xi meeting at risk?

The road to Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s expected to visit to the United States next month is shaping up to be rockier than Beijing would have hoped.

Will latest trade ‘speed bump’ slow China-US ties, or even stop Xi-Trump summit?

As Beijing and Washington trade curbs, analysts say only major action or breach of the other’s core interests can prevent summit.