President Trump returns to Washington with not much to show for his two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Despite Trump's praise for Xi and the big, not at all, spontaneous display of unity and warmth in Beijing,

it's clear that China will not be using its leverage to help Trump in the Middle East.

Tonight, how did America become so boxed in?

Next. This is Washington Week with the Atlantic. Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

On his way back from China, President Trump told reporters, we've settled a lot of different problems

that other people wouldn't have been able to settle.

One thing that wasn't settled was China's support for Iran.

Another unsettled issue, American arms sales to Taiwan, and more broadly, American support for Taiwan.

Just as Trump's backing of America's European allies is an open question, so too is his support for Taiwanese freedom.

Joining me tonight to discuss the future of the planet, Peter Baker, the Chief White House correspondent at the New York Times.

Susan Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Mark Mazetti is a Washington correspondent at the New York Times, and Nancy Yusuf is a Pentagon correspondent and staff writer at The Atlantic.

Thank you all for joining me.

The future of the planet will be discussed tonight.

Peter, it seems like Xi Jinping got what he wanted out of the summit.

That fair?

Well, he was the host. He was the dominant figure here, right?

Trump was the supplicant in a way coming to his territory, to his turf.

And he didn't give anything away as far as we know right now.

You never know if there are secreted agreements that we don't yet understand.

But certainly Trump did not get a breakthrough out of it,

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