{"id":4990,"date":"2026-09-20T22:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2026-09-20T22:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:39:42","slug":"on-issue-after-issue-trump-has-given-xi-jinping-a-pass-even-on-reports-china-is-helping-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4990","title":{"rendered":"On issue after issue, Trump has given Xi Jinping a pass \u2014 even on reports China is helping Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP26259766482857-e1789914603997.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That tough talk helped Trump get to the White House a decade ago, but since then, he increasingly speaks in glowing terms about\u00a0Chinese President Xi Jinping, the geopolitical rival Trump will fete on Thursday with a state dinner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s a great gentleman; we get along great,\u201d Trump said this month. \u201cWe have a very good trading relationship and, you know, they\u2019re a competitor and all of that, but we have a very good relationship with President Xi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On issue after issue, the Republican president has given Xi a pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump shrugged off reports that China had provided Iran with satellite imagery, saying, \u201cI think he\u2019s behaved reasonably well.\u201d After accusing Beijing of accessing U.S. voter files back in 2020, Trump indicated he was hesitant to retaliate: \u201cI think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s magnanimity comes as China and the United States are in a contest for global leadership, with some of America\u2019s traditional allies rethinking their strategies. China has expanded its dominance in manufacturing and pushed into new technologies such as\u00a0artificial intelligence\u00a0and\u00a0electric vehicles\u00a0that create risks for the economies of the U.S., Germany, Italy, France, South Korea and Japan, among others.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump tried to confront China with tariffs, but that backfired<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unable to change Chinese behavior, Trump has resorted to hospitality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He traveled to Beijing\u00a0in May, and the two leaders could meet again two more times this year at international summits. Trump has readied\u00a0a helipad on the White House South Lawn\u00a0before Xi\u2019s arrival and has lamented that\u00a0his ballroom\u00a0will not be ready to host the Chinese leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has insisted that the U.S. is comfortably ahead of China, but his efforts last year to confront China with a\u00a0mounting set of tariffsbackfired. China holds a relative monopoly on the\u00a0rare earths\u00a0used in electronics and deployed that to help force a trade armistice with Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrump has dramatically shifted his approach to China because his initial attempt to use super-high tariffs and export restrictions was unsuccessful,\u201d said Michael Kovrig, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group. \u201cXi and Trump got into a contest of leverage, and Xi came out on top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Trump has largely undermined the economic and national security alliances that could previously apply pressure on China, said Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who was detained by China during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has mocked\u00a0French President Emmanuel Macron\u00a0in speeches. He has run hot and cold on NATO after several of its\u00a0members did not fully support\u00a0his choice to start\u00a0a war with Iran. Trump has launched a potentially brutal\u00a0trade fight with Canada, a longtime ally he has trolled as becoming the\u00a051st American state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s executing Xi\u2019s wedge tactics for him, and along the way, helping Xi to tell a story about China as the more stable and responsible power,\u201d Kovrig said. \u201cIt\u2019s led to a wave of Western leaders visiting Beijing and seeking to stabilize and improve their relations with Xi so they can focus more on dealing with problems Trump is causing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump\u2019s relationship with Xi has led to some symbolic wins<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump can point to some symbolic wins from having a pleasant relationship with Xi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Xi met three times on the sidelines of international summits with Democratic President Joe Biden, Trump will have achieved a pair of reciprocal state visits in a sign that the leaders of the world\u2019s two largest economies feel comfortable speaking to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trade imbalance with China in goods has declined relative to the same period in 2025, according to Census Bureau figures, though the administration has noted that China appears to be routing more goods through other nations such as Vietnam to minimize the tariffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s continued tariffs on China have not curbed its manufacturing sector. China has found new markets and boxed out competition from other industrialized countries. China is exporting more of its goods to the rest of the world with a $1.2 trillion global trade surplus last year as its low-priced EVs undercut the auto sectors in Germany, Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It\u2019s unclear whether Thursday\u2019s visit will have a policy \u2018deliverable\u2019<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both China and the U.S. are using their trade truce to retrench. China is building up its military and AI capabilities despite limited access to advanced computer chips. The Trump administration has pursued partnerships to develop rare earths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump is also banking on America going full throttle on AI development despite\u00a0voter resistance to data centers\u00a0and recent\u00a0alarming safety warnings\u00a0from the leading AI companies. He said this week on social media that\u00a0anyone slowing down AI development\u00a0was helping China because the technology will be \u201cthe Greatest Economic Development Engine in History \u2014 Bigger than Oil, Gold, Diamonds, or even the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But China has also been accused of having its AI companies train on U.S. models, a problem for Trump and the economy if AI is the key to global dominance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters at the White House last week that it\u2019s \u201cunfair to just label China as a country\u201d as being a \u201cbad actor\u201d on AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if Trump would bring up the issue with Xi, Blanche said, \u201cThose two presidents have a great relationship. \u2026 They get along, they make deals together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usually, state visits come with \u201cdeliverables\u201d on policy or trade. It\u2019s not yet clear what Thursday\u2019s visit will bring, and it\u2019s possible that the main deliverable will be the relationship itself, rather than clear and measurable goals, said Evan Medeiros, a professor at Georgetown University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That means the U.S. might not be positioning itself to compete against China as it should be, said Medeiros, a former National Security Council director on China for the Obama White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have this idiosyncratic president who believes in personal relationships and just wants to get along with Xi Jinping for the optics of getting along with him,\u201d Medeiros said. \u201cThe problem is that this idiosyncratic approach is coming at precisely the time when we really need to be amping up all dimensions of our competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#issue #issue #Trump #Jinping #pass #reports #China #helping #Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That tough talk helped Trump g&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[173,5170,456,3858,6592,3774,388,357],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-china","tag-helping","tag-iran","tag-issue","tag-jinping","tag-pass","tag-reports","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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