For a summit low on expectations but high on optics,Xi delivered a carefully crafted spectacle designed to project China’s status as the foremost peer to the US.
The leaders of the two most powerful countries in the world have spent the past two days at their cordial best,with the Trump administration confident the visit will pay dividends.
The world’s two most powerful men – US president Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping – struck a cordial tone,but will the goodwill deliver the win they are both chasing?
Donald Trump is in Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping and strike a trade deal,but will he inadvertently make it harder for the rest of us?
Beijing:With the US president’s popularity sinking back home,he’s looking to score a win by signing deals with China,writes North Asia correspondent Lisa Visentin.
The war,the response of older investors and the actions of the Reserve Bank are the biggest risks to Chalmers’ outlook,which anticipates a quick rebound in economic activity.
Aware that Labor’s (and Australia’s) golden age could end at any moment,Jim Chalmers has pitched reforms to help workers and younger generations. But his detractors are gathering at the gates.
In some of his first public remarks since leaving his post as ambassador to the US,former PM Kevin Rudd recounted a telling interaction with his Chinese counterpart in 2024.
Asked whether he believed the US should still sell weapons to Taiwan,the US president said:“Well,I’m going to have that discussion with President Xi. President Xi would like us not to,and I’ll have that discussion.”
The US president lashed out at Iran’s “stupid” leaders and said their counter-proposal to end the war was a “piece of garbage” that he didn’t bother to fully read.