As US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping convene in Beijing this week (May 14–15, 2026), the world’s two largest economies are attempting—once again—to stabilize a relationship strained to breaking point by punitive tariffs and an emerging technological iron curtain. The agenda is dense with unresolved friction: the fragile “October Truce” that temporarily […]The post South Asia can’t afford a US-China blowup — or a Trump-Xi deal appeared first on Asia Times.