The US delegation came hoping Beijing would offer deals easing tensions caused by Washington\u2019s foreign policy blunders, such as Iran war, Danny Haiphong says<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump\u2019s China visit\u00a0was an attempt to \u201csave face\u201d and seek relief after the Iran war destabilized the global economy, geopolitical analyst Danny Haiphong has told RT. According to Haiphong, the US is now in a \u201cfar weaker position\u201d than China and is seeking closer ties with Beijing to stabilize its economy and global standing.
\nUS-China relations have been strained for years over trade, technology, and security, with Trump\u2019s tariff hikes last year escalating tensions into a full-scale trade war before both sides agreed to a temporary pause. Expectations for a breakthrough were high ahead of Trump\u2019s May 13-15 China visit \u2013 his first in nearly a decade \u2013 but no major deals or clear breakthroughs were officially announced before the trip ended Friday.
\nIn an interview on Thursday, Haiphong argued that the US delegation came to China \u201choping to essentially get saved from the crisis of their own making\u201d in Iran and its global fallout. US-Israeli strikes on Iran triggered retaliation against countries hosting US bases and led to the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz \u2013 a route for roughly 20% of global oil and LNG supplies \u2013 sending energy prices soaring.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe US was the one who requested this meeting, and it\u2019s the US economy as a whole and the global economy that is suffering because of [its] aggressive and illegal war on Iran that produced an overheated global economy and an oil crisis that is now blowing up,\u201d Haiphong said. The analyst argued that Trump \u201creally needed this meeting\u201d to \u201cfind some way to cool this overheating economy.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat it amounted to was the Trump administration and all of these executives coming with their hands out hoping that China will give them deals that will ease some of this tension,\u201d he said, referring to Trump\u2019s delegation of CEOs ranging from SpaceX and Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk to Boeing\u2019s Kelly Ortberg.<\/p>\n
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Haiphong said the summit was largely \u201cabout the optics\u201d and projecting strength for the US, arguing that relations between Washington and Beijing will not genuinely improve unless the US abandons its \u201csaber rattling\u201d and makes major policy concessions.
\n\u201cThe world has changed. The US is in a far weaker position. China is in a far stronger position. It really is the US that has to hold on to the ties that it has with China in order to try to save face and strengthen its hand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Following the summit, both leaders praised the talks as progress toward stabilizing the bilateral relationship. Xi said the sides had agreed on \u201cconstructive strategic stability\u201d for the coming years, while Trump claimed \u201ca lot of different problems\u201d had been settled.<\/p>\n
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However, the meeting also highlighted ongoing geopolitical tensions: Xi warned Trump that mishandling Taiwan \u2013 the self-governed island claimed by China and armed by the US \u2013 could lead to \u201cclashes and even conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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