Rest of the World Report - May 15, Evening Edition

Trump left Beijing and got on a plane. That's where the real summit happened.① On the plane home, Trump said he made "no commitment either way" on Taiwan, that he "doesn't talk about" defending it, and that a war 9,500 miles away is "the last thing we need." His Secretary of State said Trump didn't ask Xi for help on Iran. Trump told Fox News Xi pledged to help. One of them is wrong. ② The US fired 13,629 munitions at Iran. CENTCOM has one active civilian casualty investigation. The head of CENTCOM told the Senate he couldn't corroborate reports of 22 schools and 17 hospitals hit — because he hadn't investigated any of them. The civilian harm team was cut to one person before the war began. ③ Netanyahu is fighting a war while his own coalition threatens to bring down his government — not over the war, but over whether ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students have to serve in the army fighting it."Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." — Thomas Jefferson, 1789 Get full access to The Rest of the World Report at www.restoftheworldreport.com/subscribe