{"id":436,"date":"2026-05-16T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:04:38","slug":"trumps-china-summit-shows-toll-of-a-difficult-year-for-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s China summit shows toll of a difficult year for the president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A year ago, Trump promised a new era during the first major foreign trip of his second term. On his recent visit to Beijing, the war with Iran and economic strain clouded his diplomacy.<\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=430\">GOP senator who defied Trump on impeachment faces voters, five years later<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-432\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d0d3f0e94832e708126ae4cfc2cc60be-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d0d3f0e94832e708126ae4cfc2cc60be-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d0d3f0e94832e708126ae4cfc2cc60be-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d0d3f0e94832e708126ae4cfc2cc60be-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d0d3f0e94832e708126ae4cfc2cc60be-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d0d3f0e94832e708126ae4cfc2cc60be-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Chinese President Xi Jinping was respectful but businesslike in welcoming President Donald Trump to Beijing. (Evan Vucci\/Pool\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 President Donald Trump was riding the early high of his return to power last year when he took his first major foreign trip and declared that he would make a sharp break from years of U.S. nation-building around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly one year after that visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, he came to China at a very different moment in his presidency, with inflation spiraling and no easy way out of a conflict with Iran. The fight has ensnared the U.S. military, driving energy prices up and Trump\u2019s approval rating down.<\/p>\n<p>This time, there were no sweeping declarations about how Trump\u2019s America would manage the world, nor backslapping bonhomie shared with Gulf royals who offered golden swords and honor guards riding Arabian steeds.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, there was Chinese President Xi Jinping, respectful but businesslike, welcoming but appearing to bend little on the U.S. leader\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Trump left on Friday with a promise of a Xi trip to the White House in September and trade deals that were mostly a disappointment, at least as measured by the 8 percent drop in Boeing\u2019s stock price between Trump\u2019s arrival in Beijing and his departure. The president declared delight that the trip made it possible for top U.S. business executives to meet the Chinese leader, but offered little evidence of transactions that resulted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest businessmen in the world and women, couple of women, and most of them, almost all of them, but most of them never met President Xi. This was the first time they\u2019ve met up. So they found it exciting,\u201d Trump told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had stuff back in our country, but here they are, they\u2019re standing in front of this, you know, massive country, the leadership, but they\u2019ve really performed well, I thought,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-433\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/abb871d1f4970ee4da954aeab9c113f7-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/abb871d1f4970ee4da954aeab9c113f7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/abb871d1f4970ee4da954aeab9c113f7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/abb871d1f4970ee4da954aeab9c113f7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/abb871d1f4970ee4da954aeab9c113f7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/abb871d1f4970ee4da954aeab9c113f7-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attend a welcome ceremony led by Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. (Maxim Shemetov\/Pool\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It was a stark shift from a year ago, when the president hopped from one Gulf monarchy to another to declare that a new era was at hand. Back then, he had just imposed sweeping tariffs on the globe, including ones on China that eventually peaked at 145 percent. He vowed that Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine would soon end under his guidance. And he was pushing Iran to engage in diplomacy to abandon its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those efforts have fallen by the wayside. The Ukraine war still rages. Many of the tariffs were tossed by the Supreme Court. And Iran diplomacy has been set aside in favor of war.<\/p>\n<p>With slumping approval ratings and a shuddering economy, Trump now travels on the world stage with less of a boost from the home front than he did a year ago. On Iran, he could use the involvement of China to pressure its allies in Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and do a deal with Washington on nuclear issues.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders spoke about the issue, Trump said, though he was careful not to portray himself as a supplicant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not asking for any favors, because when you ask for favors, you have to do favors in return. We don\u2019t need favors,\u201d he told reporters traveling back to the United States on Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he said, the U.S. effort to reopen the strait, which Tehran had never tested its ability to close prior to the war, was a favor to the world and countries that are dependent on shipping through the chokepoint.<\/p>\n<p>Although Trump bragged about the deals he said had been concluded during the trip \u2014 \u201cour farmers are going to be very happy,\u201d he said \u2014 the lack of concrete details from either side left open the question of what, exactly, had been agreed.<\/p>\n<p>It was a far cry from the more expansive ambitions Trump had for relations with Xi last year, when the two men agreed to meet four times in 2026 to reshape their broader relationship. With Iran now preoccupying Trump and weighing the global economy, there is little bandwidth for a rethink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, it was Trump who was on the offensive. But this year, it looks like China is being more proactive and even taking the lead\u201d in reshaping the relationship, said Wang Yiwei, a former Chinese diplomat and professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. \u201cAfter more than a year in office, he is realizing that with China, sticks don\u2019t always work and cards are hard to play.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=426\">Sparks get off to fast start, hold off Tempo 99-95 behind Plum\u2019s 25 points<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s focus this week<b> <\/b>was the opposite of Trump\u2019s new-era approach of a year ago. The Chinese leader trumpeted the status quo and stability \u2014 offering a welcome ceremony for Trump that was nearly identical to the last time he visited, in 2017, and a walk in a former<b> <\/b>imperial garden complex where some of the trees are said to be a thousand years old, a gentle reminder of ancient continuity.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-434\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1369c93e8978a38702ede32462de936f-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1369c93e8978a38702ede32462de936f-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1369c93e8978a38702ede32462de936f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1369c93e8978a38702ede32462de936f-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1369c93e8978a38702ede32462de936f-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1369c93e8978a38702ede32462de936f-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Chinese President Xi Jinping walks with President Donald Trump at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound on Friday. (Mark Schiefelbein\/Pool\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The tour and visit to Zhongnanhai, now the cloistered headquarters and residence complex of China\u2019s senior leaders, was a choreographed display of respect to Trump, since entry by foreigners is uncommon. But it was also a muscle flex, reminding the visitors that Xi plans to be tending the roses that Trump admired long after the U.S. leader is out of office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeijing appeared to put noticeably little effort into giving Trump a platform to claim success,\u201d said Ryan Hass, director of the China Center at the Brookings Institution.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. leader puts weight on his personal ties to other leaders. Xi is looking past him and past 2028, using a different time horizon, Hass said.<\/p>\n<p>Xi \u201cexpects to deal with further administrations beyond Trump,\u201d Hass said. \u201cBeijing believes the status quo and this current period of stability serve its interests, because Beijing believes that trends are working in its favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those trends include a president who appears to be less interested than many of his predecessors in adhering to decades-old U.S. assurances from President Ronald Reagan about support for Taiwan, the disputed island territory that China claims and the U.S. backs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the 1980s is a long way; that\u2019s a big, far distance away,\u201d Trump told reporters on Air Force One, explaining his lack of interest in following precedents set in that era. In December, his administration approved an $11 billion arms package for Taiwan, the largest ever, but it has yet to move on an additional $14 billion package that Congress green-lit the following month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing we need right now is a war that\u2019s 9,500 miles away,\u201d Trump said, although he stuck to a traditional presidential doctrine of ambiguity by declining to answer a question about what he would if Taiwan were attacked.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-435\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9727d3b29d24356342d9a5977591e2f5-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9727d3b29d24356342d9a5977591e2f5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9727d3b29d24356342d9a5977591e2f5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9727d3b29d24356342d9a5977591e2f5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9727d3b29d24356342d9a5977591e2f5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9727d3b29d24356342d9a5977591e2f5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One. (Mark Schiefelbein\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump said he would keep thinking about the $14 billion arms package, which his administration needs to formally transmit to Congress for weapons purchases to go forward. Hosting Xi in September may put the decision on hold until then, analysts said \u2014 the delay itself a prize for Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s meetings \u201ckept the door open to something that could happen over the next months to stabilize relations,\u201d said Orville Schell, the vice president of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, who traveled to Beijing to watch the summit.<\/p>\n<p>But, he said, deeper structural tensions will remain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake. The contradictions which bedevil this relationship are boiling beneath the surface and may reappear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some Chinese analysts said that they take Trump\u2019s ambitions seriously \u2014 but that they believe his vision is of a United States with a smaller shadow across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he wants to fundamentally change the relations between the U.S. and the entire world. In the past, the U.S. was the unipolar hegemon providing public goods in the economic and security sense. Now he wants to change the relationship completely and to make the U.S. evolve from an empire to a nation state, just like everyone else,\u201d said Da Wei, director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he\u2019s someone bringing fundamental change to the world and he\u2019s willing to pay the cost,\u201d Da said. \u201cI view him in the more serious way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Rebecca Tan in Singapore and Lyric Li in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=423\">Man City faces crisis-hit Chelsea in FA Cup final at Wembley<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, Trump promised a new era during the first major foreign trip of his second term. 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