#Trump Confirms Postponement of Planned Visit to Beijing. In a statement issued from the Oval Office Donald Trump confirmed that his trip to Beijing, originally scheduled for 31 March to 2 April, will be postponed. “I’d love to go, but I have to ...
...be here because of the war. We asked to delay it a month or so.” Meanwhile, the sixth round of U.S.–China economic and trade talks in #Paris at the OECD headquarters concluded without any notable breakthroughs. The subdued nature of these negotiations reflects the current strained atmosphere in bilateral relations. Trump’s simultaneous request for #China to help “police” or reopen the Strait of Hormuz is regarded as unreasonable and tone-deaf. One widely quoted Global Times commentary asks...
... whether the U.S. is not simply trying to make China “share the risk of a war that Washington started and can’t finish.”Analysts quoted argue that it is not China’s responsibility to clean up the mess caused by U.S. military action. Beijing’s priority remains protecting its own energy security through diversification (#Russia, Central Asia, overland routes) rather than intervening in a conflict it opposes.The U.S. is once again displaying strategic inconsistency: launching military adventu...
...res and then expecting other major powers to bear the stabilisation costs.No Chinese outlet has expressed regret or urgency about the postponement of Trump's visit. @LauraRuHK