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Trump’s domestic woes and the Iran war raise the risk that Chinese leader Xi Jinping may try to swap economic sweeteners for a backtrack on U.S.-Taiwan ties.

This story is based on over a dozen interviews with officials and regional experts, including those from the White House State Department and Central Asian embassies.

Trump’s challenge is to extract commitments from Beijing that go beyond “performative” gestures from Xi.

President Donald Trump’s ambitions for his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping have shrunk from ‘grand bargain’ to a plea for help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Japanese investment in the U.S. shipbuilding sector is years away due to administration hostility to skilled foreign labor, analysts and foreign government officials say.

President Donald Trump’s ambitions for his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping have shrunk from ‘grand bargain’ to a plea for help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz and a push for small trade deals.

President Donald Trump returns from his two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping with hints of deals but no progress on key issues that vex the U.S.-China relationship.

The arms supply appeal follows President Donald Trump’s comments Friday that he’s delaying approval of a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan.

Proposed direct contact between the U.S. and Taiwanese president overturns decades of diplomatic practice governing ties between the two countries.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defanged critics of the Iran war and global health cuts with charm and more flexibility than some of his colleagues.