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Trump and Xi’s Different Approaches at the Summit

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new video loaded: Trump and Xi’s Different Approaches at the Summit <img src="https://www.chinastrategy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/trump-and-xis-different-approaches-at-the-summit.png" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width After President Trump’s meeting in Beijing with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, our reporter David Sanger examines the differences in their body language and style. By David E. Sanger, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Nikolay Nikolov and Jiwoong Hong May 15, 2026 NYT

The Guardian view on Trump in Beijing: the US and China are playing the waiting game | Editorial

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“American strength back on the world stage,” crowed the White House social media post: a curious remark, when the attached video showed the stars and stripes fluttering beneath a long row of Chinese flags, and People’s Liberation Army soldiers marching in unison. This week’s visit to Beijing offered the kind of style that Donald Trump enjoys – parading troops, a banquet and a polite if not markedly enthusiastic welcome from a strongman he called “really a friend” – but little apparent substance. The public account of the encounter will be partial:…

Seth Meyers on Trump sucking up to Xi: ‘What happened to standing up to China?’

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Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s trip to China and his mixed reception. Seth Meyers On Late Night, Seth Meyers noted that in Trump‘s first year of his second term his family made about $4bn, an “insane” figure that was “not even from doing anything” other than government contracts, shady crypto deals and memecoins. Recently, a 91-storey Trump tower on Australia’s Gold Coast was scrapped after it was decided that the Trump brand is “increasingly toxic” in the country. Meyers said that means a lot as “everything there is toxic”. He…

Key points from the Donald Trump-Xi Jinping summit – video analysis

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After a much-hyped US-China summit, the leaders of the world’s two biggest powers made no real breakthroughs on big issues, such as Iran, Taiwan and trade. The Guardian’s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins, breaks down how Donald Trump and Xi Jinping focused on growing their personal rapport instead The Guardian

Men in the mirror: Trump and Xi’s suits put ‘chameleon effect’ to test in Beijing

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When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met for a welcome ceremony in Tiananmen Square this week with the world’s gaze on them, they mirrored one another in strikingly similar suits. Both were blue, single-breasted with flap pockets. Both had two buttons with only the top one done up. Both wore red ties. They were surrounded by scores of other men in different suits: Stephen Miller had his customary pocket square, ditto Pete Hegseth, who along with Scott Bessent wore flamboyantly stripy ties; Elon Musk wore a green tie; there were…

Weather tracker: Furnace Creek sizzles as snow sweeps Siberia in a week of extremes

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Extreme weather across several parts of the world this week has brought record-breaking temperatures to Honduras, North America and Indonesia. Honduras smashed its all-time May maximum temperature record earlier this month – only for it to be broken again on 13 May in Choluteca, known as the furnace of Central America. Temperatures climbed to 42.2C (107.9F), surpassing the previous record of 42.1C. With intense heat forecast to persist over the coming weeks, more records are expected to fall. In the western US, it soared to 46.7C in the aptly named…

Trump-Xi Summit Ends With No Major Breakthroughs

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new video loaded: Trump-Xi Summit Ends With No Major Breakthroughs transcript Back transcript Trump-Xi Summit Ends With No Major Breakthroughs China’s leader, Xi Jinping, gave President Trump a tour of secretive Beijing compound toward the end of their two-day summit. “Nice, nice place.” “I love that. That’s great.” “We made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries. We did discuss Iran. We feel very similar on Iran. We want that to end.” <img src="https://www.chinastrategy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/trump-xi-summit-ends-with-no-major-breakthroughs.jpg" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width < 1024px) 100vw, (width China’s leader, Xi Jinping, gave President Trump a tour…

Trump-Xi accord on Iran elusive as US president’s China trip winds down

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Donald Trump has claimed that the US and China “feel very similar” about ending the war in Iran but offered no details about a possible breakthrough. The US president was speaking alongside Xi Jinping of China at the Zhongnanhai garden in Beijing on the second and final day of the leaders’ summit. “We did discuss Iran,” Trump said. “We feel very similar about [how] we want it to end. We don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon. We want the straits open.” He added: “We want them [Iran] to…

EU carmakers pave way for Chinese rivals as balance in market shifts

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Chinese carmaker Xpeng is on the hunt for a factory in Europe. Volkswagen is aiming to reduce the number of its factories. It seems like it should have been the perfect set-up for a deal. Yet there was one problem with the plant on offer, according to Elvis Cheng, Xpeng’s managing director of north-eastern Europe: “It’s a little bit, I would say, old.” The withering verdict on the facilities of Germany’s carmaking champion, delivered this week at a Financial Times conference, may cause some awkwardness between Xpeng and Volkswagen, which…