The great international event of the week, and probably one of the most relevant of 2026, was the summit between Trump and Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. There are many international issues that concern the great powers, from the situation in Hormuz to the relationship between the two countries. What ideas or headlines can we get from this meeting?
X-ray of an expected meeting
As such, nothing firm or relevant to the state of the international situation has been agreed upon. It is not necessarily bad, since it is always positive that the two main powers can see each other and sit down to talk about the issues they touch on because perhaps it lays the seeds of a future understanding.
Last October, they met in South Korea and some agreements were reached there, such as a truce in the trade war and a certain opening in Chinese exports of rare earths, the material with which many technological components are made. In fact, what has been proposed is that Xi and Trump meet again, this time in the United States, in the month of September, which means that there is frequent contact between both leaders, and that is good.
And it is also important to highlight that Trump went to sell, since the trip was attended by businessmen such as the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, which is the main microchip company in the world, and a central player in the dispute between the United States and China for primacy in that sector. In addition, the United States also managed to place more than 10 billion dollars in American agricultural products, which for rural areas in the country in an election year is no small feat.
The feeling you get from the Donald Trump meeting
And, what is the feeling that Trump gets, what is the assessment that the president of the United States has made of the meeting? “I want to thank him. It has been an incredible visit. I think it has resulted in a lot of good things. We have closed some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries. He is a man I respect a lot. We have known each other for eleven years, almost twelve. We have fixed problems that others have not been able to. The relationship is very strong, we have really achieved wonderful things, I think.”
The World Order explains that “dancing water if you have to do it is very Trump” because we must remember that the president “only understands the relationships of strength and only respects those who he considers as strong or stronger than him”: “He knows that China and Xi Jinping are first-level rivals for the United States and that he cannot belittle them or humiliate them as he did with Zelensky or some other European president in the White House.”
In any case, they explain that a bit of the same thing as always has happened with Trump: he says that everything has gone great, that he has been very productive, but he does not detail anything or specify how it has gone well. It is all very effective, but it is also true that it conveys an image of a certain closeness and cooperative spirit between both countries, not of confrontation.
Trump has gone to sell. So much so that the United States has announced that China has committed to purchasing 200 Boeing aircraft. China has not confirmed it, but Trump will use the announcement for domestic consumption when the aeronautical company is going through a bad time. His Administration has also agreed with China to limit the power of some artificial intelligences, especially so that they cannot be used in dangerous ways by non-state actors.
And he also said that China is very involved in stabilizing Hormuz. But, again, China has not said anything and no clear commitment from Beijing has come out of that meeting.
The other side of the coin: Xi’s position
China has spoken a lot about the importance of relations with the United States. Once again, we see a spirit of not openly confronting because they try to follow a path of development and growth making as little noise as possible and avoiding getting bogged down in crises and problems that are foreign to them.
In addition, they have also put on the table the issues that concern them: “That’s called Taiwan,” they explain. And China’s warning or concern has been to highlight that mishandling the situation in Taiwan can lead to a dangerous situation. Subtly, it attempts to dissuade the United States from getting too involved with the island in the event of a crisis or if Beijing tries to woo Taiwan.
And it seems that Xi’s warnings about Taiwan have paid off if we listen to Trump in the first interview after getting off the plane back to the United States: “China is very powerful and Taiwan is a very small island. They are 59 miles away from China, we are 9,500 miles away. Taiwan developed because we had presidents who didn’t know what they were doing. They stole our chip industry.”
