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China's Xi Jinping warns President Trump on Taiwan, underscoring the tensions around a visit Trump had teased as the best summit ever.
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Thank you very much. Thank you. Plus, U.S. health officials scale up their hantavirus response. And do college grades even matter when AI makes getting an A easier than ever? It's Thursday, May 14th. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. Well, day one of the Trump-Xi summit is underway. And to help us decipher some early signals coming out of the high stakes gathering in Beijing, I've got Journal Beijing Bureau Chief John Cheng and Wall Street Journal National Security Reporter Alex Ward on the line from the Chinese capital. John, Alex, anyone nerding out over this summit will have seen reference in a lot of outlets to the five B's that the U.S.
is seeking progress on this week, among other things, setting up a board of trade, selling Boeing planes, as well as American beef. But since the real negotiating day is tomorrow, I propose that we look at two P's instead, pageantry and prepared remarks. John? Patrick, is it all pomp and circumstance or something actually worth watching?
It is definitely something worth watching because political symbolism is so important in general, but especially to the Chinese leadership. So I think given all of the uncertainty around this summit, whether it would even happen, what date it would happen, who would be there, and yet they have, of course, pulled out all the stops. It hasn't been terribly different from the kind of red carpet treatment that the president got in 2017. You still have the greeting from the honor guard, from young Chinese men and women jumping up and down and waving flags and flowers. And then you had the two leaders going to the Temple of Heaven. This is a centuries-old temple in central Beijing. where the emperors of China used to go to pray for good harvest.
So it has been quite a nice sort of reception, especially if you are Donald Trump. And this is definitely something that he's talked a lot about looking back to his 2017 trip and that he seemed to very much be looking forward to.
Alex, I'm glad that John brought up that last trip because since 2017, China has really grown to be a real superpower.
What warnings did Xi Jinping give President Trump regarding Taiwan?
Has that changed anything about how Trump is being received this time around?
Well, actually, I would say the first P, pageantry, leads into what I would offer as a third P, which is power. If there was so much pageantry in the first session, this one is much more about the power that these two countries can execute together. Their actual opening statements talked about the superpower relationship. Trump, I think at this point, he's not as in charge as he was in 2017. The Iran war is looming. His political prospects are getting weighed down by that war, by a struggling economy. He doesn't really have the upper hand in this. And now he's in Xi's house. In fact, there's already the clip of reporters asking Trump about Taiwan after she released this statement giving some stark warning about the Taiwan issue.
Trump was uncharacteristically quiet. And that, I think, gives some insight into a couple of things. One, the politics of the issue. Two, the general sensitivities of Trump maybe not wanting to upset his host. But three, about Trump loves to wax poetic and be extemporaneous. And in this case, he's being very measured. And so I think this gives us a sense of
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