Xi’s first visit to Washington in a decade was a display of pomp and pageantry, with Trump offering his guest a two-month truce on the brewing tariff war. US President Donald Trump’s fete for his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping has been heavy on pageantry and platitudes but light on substantive announcements. Key points and original sources are listed below.
- Xi’s first visit to Washington in a decade was a display of pomp and pageantry, with Trump offering his guest a two-month truce on the brewing tariff war.S1
- US President Donald Trump’s fete for his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping has been heavy on pageantry and platitudes but light on substantive announcements. The most significant news tied to the gathering materialized before it even began, as Treasury...S2