A Breezy Resort, and a Thorny Agenda, for Trump’s Meeting With Xi Jinping
By MARK LANDLERMARCH 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — When President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China sit down for their first meeting next month in Palm Beach, Fla., they may benefit from the balmy breezes
and tranquil views at the Mar-a-Lago resort: Relations between the United States and China are as complex and chilly as they have been since the early days of the Reagan administration.
He helped orchestrate a fence-mending phone call between Mr. Trump
and Mr. Xi last month, in which Mr. Trump pledged to abide by "one China," the four-decade-old policy under which the United States recognized a single Chinese government in Beijing and severed its diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
The architects of that policy — Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s chief strategist,
and Peter Navarro, the director of the National Trade Council — wield sizable influence in the White House, though neither has made his voice heard on China, at least publicly.
He is heavily involved in planning the presidential visit, a senior official said,
and took part in a National Security Council meeting on Monday at which North Korea and China were discussed.
The meeting, he said, would "help defuse tensions over North Korea." China has bitterly protested the deployment of an American system
officially called the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, designed to help South Korea shoot down incoming North Korean missiles.
By MARK LANDLERMARCH 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — When President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China sit down for their first meeting next month in Palm Beach, Fla., they may benefit from the balmy breezes
and tranquil views at the Mar-a-Lago resort: Relations between the United States and China are as complex and chilly as they have been since the early days of the Reagan administration.
He helped orchestrate a fence-mending phone call between Mr. Trump
and Mr. Xi last month, in which Mr. Trump pledged to abide by "one China," the four-decade-old policy under which the United States recognized a single Chinese government in Beijing and severed its diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
The architects of that policy — Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s chief strategist,
and Peter Navarro, the director of the National Trade Council — wield sizable influence in the White House, though neither has made his voice heard on China, at least publicly.
He is heavily involved in planning the presidential visit, a senior official said,
and took part in a National Security Council meeting on Monday at which North Korea and China were discussed.
The meeting, he said, would "help defuse tensions over North Korea." China has bitterly protested the deployment of an American system
officially called the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, designed to help South Korea shoot down incoming North Korean missiles.
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