EPISODE · May 10, 2026 · 15 MIN
China Prepares To Eat Trump For Lunch
from Mallen Baker: Faultlines · host Mallen Baker
Later this coming week, China's Xi Jinping will be hosting President Donald Trump in Beijing for their delayed summit meeting. It's hard to ignore the fact that, since the last time they met, the US seems to have been bent on destroying its own leverage at every opportunity. It is caught in Trump's illegal war in Iran. His big punitive tariff policies came crashing down. And he has been single-handedly driving all of America's former allies, to some degree, into the embrace of China as the more stable alternative partner. So what will they be aiming to achieve in this meeting, and how will that impact the rest of the world? Let's discuss.
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