BEIJING — President Donald Trump will land in China this week to familiarly regal pomp and radically changed geopolitics relative to his last visit in 2017.
Just nine months after taking the oath of office for the first time, Trump came to Beijing seeking to leverage his growing relationship with his Chinese counterpart and the looming threat of tariffs to force concessions.
Now, Trump will meet with President Xi Jinping as a wartime president looking for help to end the conflict in Iran from a country that purchases Iran’s sanctioned oil and has indirectly sent it weapons.