Why Xi Wants Trump In Beijing Now

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-13

[00:00:00]Welcome everyone. After years of tariffs, sanctions, and escalating tensions, Xi Jinping has now invited Donald Trump to Beijing. And the real question is not why Trump would go to China, but why China wants him here now.

[00:00:18]>> Yeah, exactly. And what we need to look at is why now? What's the reason? And there are a number of factors, not least that Xi's going to say to Trump, look, your policy decisions are causing not just problems that you uh to the rest of the world, but domestically, it's causing you huge economic problems. It's causing supply chain problems. You're causing financial problems as well.

[00:00:46]You're also still nibbling around the edges about Taiwan, and frankly, we're sick to death of it. And generally you've caused problems that all of your own making and we want an end to this.

[00:00:58]We're sick and tired of this. Also, you need to understand that through Trump 1.0 and into Trump 2.0, China has not been isolated economically the way the Trump administration thought would come to pass. The reality is China adapted and thrived. They've deepened ties with countries all over the world, including the Gulf. They've strengthened trade with global south countries at the expense of the United States and its allies. And increasingly so. They've massively increased technological self-sufficiency.

[00:01:37]And they're building all these alternative financial channels including SIPs for argument sake. So the the statement to Trump's going to be, look, you've thrown the kitchen sink at us and it's achieved absolutely nothing. So it's pointless you carrying on doing this. We don't really care if as a result of this interview uh this uh visit that you can go out and make statements. You can tell the world that oh I'm the only leader who who's capable of negotiating with Xi. Xi and I are friends. But as much as anything, the markets also want some calming influence on proceedings. They're very nervous about what's going on in the Middle East. Uh and maybe if they can come out with some statements at the end, Trump can do something to calm the jittery nerves that are going on uh with regards to yeah, the Middle East, but also this very tenuous relationship between the Chinese and the United States. The other thing of course is this can be he can sell this as as oh we're having this geopolitical reset and we are getting trade concessions and the Chinese have agreed to all these things. Chinese don't care whether there's any reality to this. They're not bothered what Trump's going to have to sell to the American people to to basically get reelected in the midterms. It's irrelevant to them. But from China's perspective, by hosting Trump, despite all the escalating tensions, as Ken said in the introduction, and all the intendent problems in that regard, they're saying to the world, we're not a contained power. We are a peer power.

[00:03:23]We're not seeking global domination. We don't want to be an agent power. We just want to be a great nation amongst equals. We want you, the United States, to think that also. And this is hugely beneficial for the United States because it needs internal stability. It needs external stability because its position in the world is getting ever increasingly more tenuous because of the uh the Iran war as one example and also the behavior of the United States with regards to the Ukraine war and sanctioning Russia and of course obviously sanctioning the Russian central bank and despite all the the the hostility we've seen there is a uh recognition that this has to end. For China, peaceful coexistence may seem a dream, but it's a reality to them. And yeah, of course, there are always going to be competitors. Yes, there are going to be situations where they're going to be in opposition with each other to do with things like technology, semiconductors, AI, finance, energy. But let's face it, Trump's taking chief executives of the 16 largest US companies and clearly that they're the because they have sign not only do they have significant business interest in China, but they want to be able to grow those those business opportunities and to work for win-win cooperation.

[00:05:00]And there is definitely, if you look at this, the inclusion of far more high- techch and financial firms in this US delegation compared with Trump's 2017 visit. That shows a clear signal of the need for this cooperation. China's very happy to to bring these people on board and to say to Trump, this is the future.

[00:05:23]This is how this relationship's going to have to work. We're going to have to coexist. Yes, you may see this as rivalry. Well, okay, we're not going to be naive and pretend that this rivalry is not going to continue to exist, but this rivalry has to be contained in the sense that doesn't spiral out of control. And there's multiple secondary and tertiary effects that is going to damage us both economically, financially, and obviously society.

[00:05:56]you know, to re-emphasize what you were pointing out about why now, why does China want Trump now? And I'm reminded of a few months ago when there was the original visit and the discussion of dates for the visit and China responded publicly, we don't know anything about this. So Trump was trying to coax and utilize a visit with Xi for his own political or other type of purpose.

[00:06:26]Well, as the conflict has really escalated uh you know with Iran and things have economically and geopolitically really expanded to where say like uh the expectation was oh and you see this the the reports from the west China gets all a lot of its oil from the Middle East it's really going to be in trouble and then you realize that China has actually been supplying a lot of the Southeast Asian countries from their own stockpiles. So, they really haven't been affected.

[00:06:59]And then you get the reports out that, oh, China is interfering in and aiding Iran, this and that. Well, why wouldn't they? They have a 25-year agreement uh for security and uh economic purposes.

[00:07:14]So obviously Trump did not really seem like he wanted to go to China but is being forced to for a lot of reasons that aren't really on the surface and that's something I think we really you know can expand upon.

[00:07:34]>> Yeah. In essence this is a symbolic visit with Xi summoning Trump to say look this really is the end of the unipolar world. We've said it many times, but this is a multipolar world of the future, and you're going to have to find a position in that. And this is there's going to have to be negotiations because yeah, for decades, you assumed that it was the rules-based order and everyone else had to adapt to that or and if you didn't, well, we'll have regime change and sanctions to force you back into line. But as we said, China, they tried this and it failed in totality.

[00:08:14]So this presidential visit to Beijing acknowledges quite simply that the United States cannot dictate outcomes ever again and especially not to China.

[00:08:28]But the important point that will be made to Trump is and all these business executives, this is not about winning.

[00:08:37]China is not trying to win. The relationship between the two countries has evolved from the US hijgemonic dominance into basically we need to have strategic bargaining between two powers and Trump's in is not well understood under a lot of pressure from elements within the US business and financial establishment. Hence why they're all going to China that they're sick to death of all the supply chain problems.

[00:09:06]They're sick to death of the inflation and how that's impacting the financial system and financial institutions. All the market uncertainty because they never know what he's going to say from one minute to the next. all the the huge economic costs because of all the fragmentation and therefore Wall Street, big corporations, uh big tech players, manufacturing, they want predictability and that might not necessarily for some in some eyes be we're all going to be friends with China, but we're going to put measures in place that means we're going to stabilize things and that we can have win-win cooperation and where we don't see eye to eye, we're going to sit down like mature adults and resolve those problems. And yeah, there is an optics angle to this. And it's worth reiterating this that by the Chinese hosting Trump and summoning him, it projects confidence. It projects to the world that we China are in a position to be a major player in multipolar world. and we're here that we will support your interests as the global south and that you have no reason to fear the US anymore and the United States is not a nation that is going to be a dominant power anymore that we to China is not isolated as the US would like to imagine. World leaders come regularly to Beijing. The global south is growing and it is going going from strength to strength and therefore you know it doesn't matter from our perspective what you think is is going to happen in the future. The world is irrevocably changed and therefore we are going to have to deal with thorny matters like technology like the dollar as a world reserve currency.

[00:11:02]your idea that you're dominating AI, what's going to happen with industrial capacity, what happens militarily and who is going to have influence over how the world evolves in the future. And that rivalry is going to have to be managed and and therefore on that basis, you're going to have to grow up and behave like adults. And that in essence is the message that is going to be conveyed to Trump very very clearly and very succinctly.

[00:11:36]And I think it's important to emphasize the Chinese philosophy when it comes to uh dealing with sovereign nations, sovereign leaders and the like. You do not air dirty laundry out in public. For the past two weeks, uh, I've taken a look and when Xi has spoken about the upcoming, uh, meeting with Trump in the United States, he has emphasized over and over and over that it's all about the spirit of equality, respect, mutual benefit, expand cooperation, manage differences, and inject more stability and peace into a turbulent and changing world. And that right there when you take a look at the opposite where just uh yesterday in an interview somebody posed the question about you're going to meet Xi. This is to Donald Trump. You're about to meet Xi. Um are you still going to sell arms to Taiwan? and he sort of heamed and hod around the question but kept going back to well Xi and I you know we're we're good friends but in this case uh well and and and so the United States wants to do what the United States wants to do. China wants to go ahead and bring about the cooperation and peace throughout the world. And so I think that this is going to be the primary emphasis in much stronger language of which uh Xi Jinping and China is going to tell President Trump and leave it at that. And if he decides to accept those words and and move towards that type of cooperation and consil consiliation, then I think things are going to get better. But if not, there's the underlying uh implication that if you do not pursue these these uh things, then do not be surprised when the consequences lay out in the future uh event to event, trade agreement to trade agreement, etc., etc. Yeah, and that's a good point to stop.

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[00:13:53]And with that, I'll say goodbye.