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BREAKING: Trump's big meeting with Xi Jinping gets humiliatingly DOWNSIZED as Air Force One arrives in Beijing and U.S. leverage evaporates!
This is shaping up to be a historic embarrassment...
“It’s the shrinking summit. It’s pretty clear the Trump team is in a very difficult position and it’s very possible Trump goes to Beijing preoccupied and weakened," said Zack Cooper, a former Deputy National Security Advisor for the George W. Bush White House.
The Trump administration originally said that the meeting with Xi tomorrow and Friday would focus on trade, fentanyl, and the Iran War. Trump himself previously bragged that it would be a "Monumental Event" and that Xi would give him a "big fat hug."
That hug now looks to be a big middle finger.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that the two leaders will discuss “major issues concerning China-U.S. relations and world peace and development" but did not mention the marquee items that have been bandied about by the White House.
And now Trump is backpedaling. As recently as Monday, he said that the discussions would include Iran and energy. That's no longer the case.
“We have a lot of things to discuss. I wouldn’t say Iran is one of them, to be honest with you, because we have Iran very much under control," Trump said on Tuesday.
“A year ago, there was all the talk about the prospect for some kind of grand bargain between the U.S. and China. What I’ve heard over and over again is that maybe little bargains are possible," said Jonathan Czin, a former senior China analyst for the CIA.
The analysis here is rather straightforward. Xi knows that Trump is in a weakened position. Thanks to his disastrous Iran War and ongoing Epstein coverup, he has never been more unpopular domestically. At the same time, his primary bludgeoning tool in foreign negotiations was removed by the Supreme Court when they struck down his tariff powers.
“The confidence that you see from Beijing in recent months that they are negotiating with the United States as equals, if not as the stronger player in the negotiation, is striking,” said Henrietta Levin, a former deputy China director at the Biden State Department.
She added that Xi is headed into this summit strengthened by “a perception of U.S. distraction in Iran, and the prospect of the U.S. getting bogged down again in the Middle East."
This summit is now shaping up to be a major diplomatic win for Xi. He convinced Trump to trek across the Pacific Ocean with his coterie of Epstein associates, rapists, drunks, and buffoons, drawing the eyes of the world with them. Now, they'll end up flying back to America with nothing to show for it but a few choice photos.
“I’m expecting more optics than substance out of the summit. I think some of it will be real and most of it will be fake," said Liza Tobin, who served as National Security Council Director for China during the first Trump term and part of Biden's presidency.
Trump promised to be "tough on China." Instead, every single action that he has taken since entering office has strengthened Xi's hand and set the stage for a Chinese century. He gutted our science and research sector, undermined our most crucial alliances, crashed our economy, and continues to prioritize the foreign interests of Israel over our own.
This man will go down as the greatest failure in the history of the presidency.
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