David E. Sanger
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first heard Dec 2024
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other world leaders like Chancellor Merz of Germany contending that Iran has humiliated the United States, and with the Chinese themselves a bit mystified about why the U.S.
was having such a hard time opening up a body of water such as the Strait of Hormuz or defeating a kind of second or third-rate power in their mind like Iran.
And of course, all summits are about optics.
And while I'm sure there will be all the pomp and ceremony that goes with these, the fact of the matter is he comes into this summit looking a bit weakened.
Well, we don't know a huge amount right now, but the obvious in any summit that involves President Trump is that you begin with the trade and economic relationships.
And there, there's almost always a series of big purchases by China to be announced and potential business deals and memorandums of understanding, some of which will come to fruition and some of which will not.
But these are all sort of the low-hanging fruit of the relationship.
I mean, this is what Donald Trump would do in any big summit meeting.
And in some ways, those may be the easier of the issues to resolve, which isn't to say that any of them are easy.
Well, Rachel, this is Donald Trump and his idea of a summit.
is to emerge with a bunch of business deals, even if they don't fundamentally change the nature of a relationship.
And he set this one up just that way.
And so you'll hear a lot about the three Bs, beef, beans, and Boeing.
Well, these are three big, distinctly American exports.
The Chinese have always bought American soybeans, although they think they're overpriced.
They've long been dependent on Boeing, although now they're building some very good aircraft of their own.
And beef, well, they're trying to start up their own beef industry as well, but they're still buying some specialty American beef.
These are always the low-hanging fruit of these summits because China needs to buy some of this anyway, and the president wants to be able to go out and describe something that is an immediate deliverable to the American people.
I'm sure that you'll hear many announcements and the president will declare that these were the biggest purchases ever, but they are fundamentally commodities.
And that's where the two countries do business most easily.
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