KEITH: Yeah. When this visit was first put on the books last fall, the focus was on keeping the trade truce between these two powers going. And that is still on the agenda. But now there’s this pressing new global challenge, says Lyle Goldstein. He’s director of the China Initiative at Brown University.
LYLE GOLDSTEIN: I do think that this war will dominate the summit. I mean, let’s face it. It will push a lot of other things off the agenda. I mean, if for no other reason, Trump is focused on it because he wants it, you know, off his desk, you know, as it were, I think, and wants to resolve this political problem.
KEITH: Iran’s foreign minister just recently went to China and met with his counterpart there, and China is credited with helping to push Iran to accept that initial ceasefire. Goldstein says he could imagine Trump asking Xi to pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and make a deal to end the war.
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