James Kynge

But you know, these summits, they can surprise.

There is an extraordinary meeting going to take place between Trump and Xi in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

It's an amazing old shrine to the old kind of agricultural gods of China.

So that's kind of amazing.

I don't know.

There could be surprises.

But at the moment, I think those are the contours.

I think, yeah, as you rightly say, Stephen Schwarzman from Blackstone and BlackRock, Larry Fink, Elon Musk from Tesla and SpaceX, Tim Cook from Apple, they're all there.

Jensen Huang from NVIDIA is there as well.

And Trump already said on the plane as he was coming over, quote, I will be asking President Xi, a leader of extraordinary distinction, to open up China...

so that these brilliant people can work their magic and help bring the People's Republic to an even higher level.

My sense is that he's not that interested in bringing the People's Republic to an even higher level.

I think he's interested in helping these companies win deals, win market access, and maybe stave off some of the actions that we've seen China begin to take against

not just American companies, but all companies that would like to put sanctions on China or to decouple from China.

So there's a very major commercial aspect to this whole trip as well.

Yeah, that's such a great insight, Ed.

If I had to sum this up in one sentence, I would say that Trump is going to Beijing to rectify some of the problems that he himself created.

As you rightly say, the US put 145% tariffs on Chinese exports at one point last year, Chinese exports to the US.

And then after China...

said that it was going to restrict exports of critical minerals.