Trump landed in Beijing on Wednesday for the long-anticipated meeting that was delayed two months by the US-Israel war on Iran—also now the dominant topic on a schedule that was supposed to focus primarily on trade stabilisation.
“Let’s face it, it will push a lot of other things off the agenda,” said Lyle Goldstein, Brown University’s Asia programme director. “Trump is focused on it because he wants it off his desk.”
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