Donald Trump and Xi Jinping seemed to call back to a prior era of bonhomie. But there’s no going back to the 1990s.

Xi is keen to limit US arms sales to Taiwan and wants Washington to oppose Taiwanese independence.

Optimistic talk about deepening the bilateral relationship only goes so far.

Chinese investments into “non-strategic, non-sensitive” US companies would get fast-tracked regulatory approval under an agreement being ironed out in Beijing.

China’s foreign minister told counterparts that standing up to the US in the face of trade pressure was in ‘the common interest of all countries.’

The Trump administration is keenly aware of its rare earths Achilles heel, and has rolled out price floors, equity investments, federal stockpiling, and more.

Beijing has different interests to the US in the Iran war, which may preclude any breakthrough during Trump’s visit.

The 2019 deal halted a trade war, but the commitments were “completely unrealistic,” a prominent economist told Semafor.

US allies in Asia are worried that Washington will strike deals with Beijing that leaves them out in the cold.

In his 2024 campaign, Trump promised to hit China harder with tariffs than any other country, but has ended up more cautious.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the board would determine “non-sensitive areas where it would be possible for the Chinese to invest.”

At the company’s annual developers confab, Huang mentioned several times that half of the world’s AI researchers come from China.

Beijing has spun commercial successes into military ones. Washington is failing to keep up.

China is playing a growing role in US discourse over domestic tech growth and regulation.

US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing against the backdrop of the Iran war and pressing questions about the future of the US-China economic relationship.