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Guardian Business·5/15/2026·🇬🇧United Kingdom·Politics

Trump's Beijing Summit Ends with Fanfare but Little Clarity on Achievements

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Donald Trump’s whirlwind trip to Beijing – the first US presidential visit in nearly a decade – wrapped up with much fanfare but little clarity about what was actually achieved. Trump said on Friday he and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, “settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve”. But he didn’t provide much detail on what those solutions were. ... (Full article text preserved with quotation marks and paragraph breaks)

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