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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Amy Hawkins in Beijing

What was actually achieved at Trump and Xi’s ‘stalemate summit’ in Beijing?

Trump and Xi sit in white, wooden-framed armchairs to either side of a table with an ornate floral display. There is a screen with flower patterns behind them. Both men, but especially Trump, look rather fed-up.
The meetings in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have been called the ‘stalemate summit’. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s whirlwind trip to Beijing – the first US presidential visit in nearly a decade – wrapped up with much fanfare but little clarity about what was actually achieved.

Trump said on Friday he and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, “settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve”. But he didn’t provide much detail on what those solutions were.

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