As WPI reported, Presidents Trump and Xi held a bilateral summit last week (World Perspectives), the first since 2017, with some uncertainty over the outcome, though Trump commented on some “fantastic” trade deals. Over the weekend, more information was released on those agreements, and a White House fact sheet was released. News outlets in China have been confirming the reports. First, the diplomatic agreements. An observer said the “first six things on China’s list were Taiwan.” As we reported previously, Xi brought up U.S.-Taiwan arm sales in their discussion. Part of the U.S. policy toward Taiwan goes back to a document known as the Six Assurances, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which stated that the U...
What You Need to Know Today: Excitement over China’s agreement to purchase $17 billion of U.S. ag commodities subsided, as traders are cautious amid the yet-unspecified allocation of those purchases. Monday’s Crop Progress report did not significantly change the narrative for corn...
There has been more analysis of the Trump-Xi meeting last week than decades worth of papers written on the fall of Rome and the assassination of JFK. Optimists highlight the pageantry and showmanship; pessimists complain nothing major was accomplished. The divergence of the official assessments...
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Weighing in on strategic realignment
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