Trade, Taiwan and Iran cast shadows on Trump’s China summit with Xi

President Donald Trump will begin a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday as the two countries engage in a fierce trade war and the U.S. conflict with Iran rages on.

BEIJING — President Donald Trump will begin a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday as the world’s two biggest economies look to stabilize a trade truce against the backdrop of the simmering U.S. conflict with Iran.

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Trump’s visit, the first by a U.S. president since his own trip nine years ago, will be “a wild one,” he promised this year, recounting at an event in Washington that he had told Xi “to put on the biggest display you’ve ever had in the history of China.”

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