Craig Singleton

The unexpected revelation was dropped publicly by U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue—sent immediate ripples through diplomatic channels, forcing the State Department into rapid damage control

Instead, the limited outcomes showed just how far apart Washington and Beijing remain on key issues, and reinforced a view among analysts that Xi sees little reason to grant Trump major political victories ahead of November's midterm elections

President Trump touted his "truly great friendship" with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the state visit on Thursday even as issues like AI and trade linger

Yet during his White House summit with President Trump, he sometimes smiled and even laughed, projecting a warmth unusual for a meeting between superpower rivals

But while the war threatens to rattle the superpowers' fragile relations, it may end up a smaller slice of the conversation, as it appeared to be when Trump and Xi met in Beijing four months ago

But while the war threatens to rattle the superpowers' fragile relations, it may end up a smaller slice of the conversation, as it appeared to be when Trump and Xi met in Beijing four months ago

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Xi Jinping’s just wrapped up what was only his first foreign visit of 2026

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Things had been going relatively smoothly for Taiwan until Donald Trump boarded Air Force One for Washington on Friday, May 15, wrapping up a two-day visit he described as "historic," even though it resulted in neither a joint statement nor any concrete agreement between the world's two leading powers

President Trump returned from his high-stakes China trip, but uncertainty remains over a potential $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan

President Donald Trump has long tried to portray himself as something of a strongman on China, though his tough talk and trade wars are often undercut by his remarkably accommodating nature toward Xi Jinping

President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One Friday afternoon and departed Beijing after two days of high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, wrapping up the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade with warm public rhetoric but few concrete agreements to ease tensions between the world's two largest economies

US President Donald Trump returns to Beijing after nine years to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping

Trade has emerged as a central focus of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, following a Supreme Court setback over Trump’s tariff agenda earlier this year

U.S. allies were worried that Trump could end up disavowing U.S. support for Taiwan, perhaps even inadvertently, in his summit with Xi

US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his highly anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

Trump arrived in Beijing last night for a three-day visit during which he is scheduled to have several rounds of talks with Xi

China’s advocacy for an open strait while opposing the U.S. war itself has allowed Beijing to maintain leverage with both sides

Now that the United States is riven by internal politics, alienating allies, and once again consumed by a war in the Persian Gulf, this seems like an opportune moment for China to wrest the mantle of global leadership

Western-dominated insurance premiums can choke off Beijing’s oil supplies more effectively than warships can

And with frustrated allies refusing to assist and a war driving political trouble for Trump at home, current and former U.S. defense officials fear China is heading into the meeting holding the cards

CNN spoke with a range of experts in China, Taiwan and elsewhere about how the last two months of fighting in and around the Persian Gulf can inform what might happen in any possible conflict that would pit Beijing against Washington

Chinese FM holds phone talks with Rubio

Vice-Premier He Lifeng presses US counterparts on restrictions as both sides pledge dialogue and steady economic ties

The former is now in shackles in a New York detention facility after being snatched from Caracas by US special forces in an extraordinary overnight raid

The U.S. urged China to reverse what Secretary of State Marco Rubio called an "unjust and tragic" sentence against Hong Kong publisher and democracy activist Jimmy Lai, after Beijing-backed courts handed the 78-year-old a 20-year prison term under the national security law

Coming just days after Trump's new National Defense Strategy prioritized 'Western Hemisphere dominance,' this latest slashing leaves Xi without his most seasoned military advisor

Meanwhile, a U.S. aircraft carrier, which days earlier had been in the South China Sea, passed Singapore overnight to enter the Strait of Malacca — putting it on a route that could bring it to the Middle East

The findings come from a public opinion survey conducted in November 2025 by the European Council on Foreign Relations in partnership with Oxford University's Europe in a Changing World project and revealed on Thursday