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Trump Flies to Beijing Thinking He Has Leverage. China Disagrees.
China's rare earths card turned the October trade truce into a template Beijing plans to repeat. The May 14 summit will reveal who actually blinks.
The Trump-Xi Summit Is About Iran. China Wants It That Way.
The US-China summit next week was supposed to be about tariffs and rare earths. Iran has displaced both topics. That displacement is not accidental — it is the best outcome China could have engineered.
Trump Flies to Beijing With Iran in the Room
The Trump-Xi summit next week is nominally about trade and rare earths. Iran has turned it into a negotiation about who controls the ceasefire.
China Used the Trade Truce to Build a Better Weapon
While Trump called the October summit a '12 out of 10,' Beijing enacted laws to punish supply chain offshoring, tightened rare earth licensing, and banned foreign AI chips from state data centers. The truce is real. The preparation for what comes after it is also real.