What has Donald Trump got out of his two day trip to Beijing? There are some roses from the Chinese President Xi Jinping for the White House Rose Garden apparently. But a trade deal? An end to the war in Iran? The Strait of Hormuz reopened? That all seemed rather more elusive.
And what about Xi Jinping? Did he get to show that China is now America’s equal on the global stage? Access to US tech and AI? Could he even have got the nod from Trump that Taiwan – and its threatened democracy – is now no longer a priority for the US?
On this episode of The Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy is joined by Channel 4 News foreign affairs expert Jonathan Rugman, and Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law, now living in exile in the UK and on a Chinese wanted list.