Trump Goes to Beijing. Neocon Push for Iran Ground Invasion
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
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Trump Goes to Beijing. Neocon Push for Iran Ground Invasion
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, we have the meeting between U.S. President Trump and Chinese leader |
| 0:05.8 | Xi Jinping in Beijing, a two-day summit between the two leaders. |
| 0:12.0 | Is this another type of reset? |
| 0:16.5 | Are we looking at a contentious two days between the two leaders? |
| 0:23.9 | Iran will be top of the agenda, I imagine, with regards to geopolitics or foreign politics. |
| 0:30.9 | Iran, the blockade of China, trying to prevent oil and energy to reach China. |
| 0:38.5 | Of course, we have all kinds of trade and tariff issues that they're going to discuss maybe |
| 0:44.7 | rare earth, maybe, Russia, Ukraine, perhaps. |
| 0:49.7 | What do you think is going to be discussed? |
| 0:51.5 | Well, this is interesting because... Taiwan, sorry. Taiwan definitely is going to be discussed. Well, this is interesting because... Taiwan, sorry. |
| 0:55.0 | Taiwan definitely is going to be discussed. |
| 0:58.5 | Well, this is an interesting summit meeting because, of course, it's come after a very |
| 1:02.0 | difficult year in U.S.-China relations. |
| 1:04.9 | We've had the various trade wars of last year, which you remember with, did not go fully well for the US. |
| 1:14.6 | And Trump, of course, has now the problem of the Supreme Court decision, which basically |
| 1:20.0 | declared his tariffs unconstitutional. |
| 1:23.5 | So he's tried to put the tariffs back together again using other legal devices, but there's |
| 1:29.1 | been more legal challenges about those. |
| 1:32.0 | And again, he's lost another case about them. |
| 1:35.0 | So in terms of tariff policy, his position doesn't look strong. |
| 1:39.6 | He's also went, he basically wanted to go to China from about the middle of last year. |
| 1:50.6 | And he's been pushing the Chinese hard for a meeting. |
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