{"id":77356,"date":"2026-05-15T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/15\/trump-china-visit-iran-agreement-xi-jinping-elusive"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:48:47","slug":"trump-xi-accord-on-iran-elusive-as-us-presidents-china-trip-winds-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77356","title":{"rendered":"Trump leaves China without breakthroughs on Iran, Taiwan or AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president hails \u2018fantastic\u2019 deals, but details remain scarce after pageantry and little progress at much-hyped summit with Xi<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/may\/15\/trump-china-visit-live-updates-xi-jinping-talks-meeting-summit-latest-news\">Trump in China \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> on Friday after a much-hyped summit of the world\u2019s two major powers that was rich in pageantry and promises of stability, but offered little by way of tangible progress.<\/p>\n<p>The US president had gone into the two-day talks with China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xi-jinping\">Xi Jinping<\/a> weakened by his prolonged war in Iran, and did little to change the perception that he and his nation are diminished on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/15\/trump-china-visit-iran-agreement-xi-jinping-elusive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president hails \u2018fantastic\u2019 deals, but details remain scarce after pageantry and little progress at much-hyped summit with XiTrump in China \u2013 latest updatesDonald Trump left China on Friday after a much-hyped summit of the world\u2019s two major powers t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,415,448,3511,554,3279,45,47,631,3510,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-iran","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-trump-administration","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77356\/revisions\/77378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}