President Trump touched down in China this morning for a critical three-day summit…
The meeting was delayed for weeks as the U.S.-Iran conflict reached a deadly peak…
Trump told reporters Xi is a “tremendous guy” but says Taiwan is “on the table”…
The White House aims to pressure Beijing to stop “friendly” ship transits through Hormuz…
Supply chain bottlenecks in the Persian Gulf are the primary economic driver for the talks…
Xi reportedly seeks a U.S. guarantee of “non-intervention” regarding Taiwan’s status…
Analysts warn that failure to reach a “Grand Bargain” could trigger a total trade collapse…
Trump is betting his personal relationship with Xi can break the Iranian oil blockade…
3-day state visit; Trump in Beijing from May 13 to May 15.
It will be the first visit of a U.S. president to China in almost nine years, coinciding with the many tensions between the two major superpowers and the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. President Donald Trump will make a State visit to China from May 13 to 15, as announced on Monday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Asian giant. A few hours earlier, U.S. Deputy Chief Press Secretary Anna Kelly had revealed that Trump would arrive in Beijing on Wednesday night for what she described as “a visit of enormous symbolic significance”.
“Taiwan is on the table”; Trump signaled potential shifts in long-standing U.S. ambiguity.
40% of China’s oil is impacted by the blockade; Beijing pressured Tehran to reopen the chokepoint.
Trump landing in Beijing is the ultimate admission that the U.S. military can’t solve the energy crisis on its own. While he talks tough and calls the Iranian peace offers garbage the truth is that the American economy is bleeding out at the pump and Xi Jinping knows it. We are looking at a total energy siege where the Strait of Hormuz is a ghost town and global oil supplies are being choked to death while the superpowers play a game of chicken. This matters because if this summit fails to force a breakthrough we are looking at a permanent shift to triple digit oil prices that will bankrupt the middle class. The infrastructure for global trade is literally failing in real time and no amount of political theater can hide the fact that the U.S. is losing its grip on energy security. If Xi doesn’t blink then the average worker is the one who pays the price while the world holds its breath for a total economic snap.