• We don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we want the straits open
• Xi clearly stated that Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon
• It is in China’s interest to open the Strait of Hormuz
• We can destroy Iran’s power plants in just two days
• China agreed to buy 200 Boeing planes, with potential commitment to purchase up to 750 planes
• “I made no commitment on Taiwan”
• Don’t think there’s a conflict regarding Taiwan situation, spoke a lot about it with Xi

So far, the only comment that China has made regarding the Iran situation after Trump and Xi sat down to talk was: “This conflict, which should never have happened, has no reason to continue.”

The nature of the comments pretty much sums everything up. As mentioned earlier, the contrasting focus also says a lot about the lack of any real breakthroughs from their meeting this week.

The US camp has avoided trying to talk about Taiwan and focused more on trade “victories” and business/investment deals. Meanwhile, China has clearly emphasised that Taiwan is “the most critical issue” regarding bilateral ties at the moment.

And on the Iran war, China has given no commitment or promises about trying to mediate the situation. So, that is something that Trump cannot walk away with a win in claiming that he managed to twist Xi’s arm into helping him end the war. And Beijing has been very careful about their messaging here so as to not give Trump the opportunity to spin the story.

As for the rest of their meeting, I mentioned this earlier:

“Trump’s visit to China to meet with Xi was mainly for show, with both sides wanting to reaffirm to the world that the two major powers are keeping more stable relations in a time of economic turbulence. That especially after the tariffs war last year that strained ties between the two countries.

There will be agreements on trade and a couple of other things to take away from the show in Beijing this week. However, don’t expect that to change much in terms of the big picture between the US and China.

Soybean purchases, Boeing airplane orders, tech investments, and AI chip orders. There will be some gestures of goodwill to tie a ribbon around the state visit this week but it won’t extend beyond that. We’ve seen this all before and one too many a time already.”

This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.