Just as expected, the first visit by a US leader to the Chinese capital in eight years was huge on pomp and circumstance, light on diplomatic breakthroughs. President Xi Jinping threw Trump enough of a bone so that he can argue back in Washington that the US and China will cooperate to tamp down trade tensions and, most importantly, end the war in Iran. But the real action – and global fascination – was Trump’s US$20 trillion entourage of CEOs seeking greater access to Asia’s biggest economy. That delegation, representing a market value equivalent to China’s annual gross domestic product, stole the spotlight from the camera-hungry Trump.
lørdag 16. mai 2026
Salesman Trump leaves China with very little in his bag
Few things enrage Donald Trump more than being upstaged, particularly when he is on the biggest stage of both his stints as US president — in Beijing. Though Trump World will deny that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang did just that this week, he did. And global markets know it.
Just as expected, the first visit by a US leader to the Chinese capital in eight years was huge on pomp and circumstance, light on diplomatic breakthroughs. President Xi Jinping threw Trump enough of a bone so that he can argue back in Washington that the US and China will cooperate to tamp down trade tensions and, most importantly, end the war in Iran. But the real action – and global fascination – was Trump’s US$20 trillion entourage of CEOs seeking greater access to Asia’s biggest economy. That delegation, representing a market value equivalent to China’s annual gross domestic product, stole the spotlight from the camera-hungry Trump.
Just as expected, the first visit by a US leader to the Chinese capital in eight years was huge on pomp and circumstance, light on diplomatic breakthroughs. President Xi Jinping threw Trump enough of a bone so that he can argue back in Washington that the US and China will cooperate to tamp down trade tensions and, most importantly, end the war in Iran. But the real action – and global fascination – was Trump’s US$20 trillion entourage of CEOs seeking greater access to Asia’s biggest economy. That delegation, representing a market value equivalent to China’s annual gross domestic product, stole the spotlight from the camera-hungry Trump.