Trump-Xi summit: US leader now a ‘powerful lame duck’, says analyst

United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have begun high-level talks in Beijing, kicking off a closely watched summit unfolding against a backdrop of global tensions over trade, the Iran conflict and Taiwan. Drew Thompson, senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, shares with CNA’s Asia First his thoughts on how different the two leaders are now compared to Trump’s last visit to Beijing in 2017.

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