{"id":210761,"date":"2026-05-15T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-a-warm-welcome-and-a-cold-warning-as-us-president-visits-china-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:55:00","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-a-warm-welcome-and-a-cold-warning-as-us-president-visits-china-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-a-warm-welcome-and-a-cold-warning-as-us-president-visits-china-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: a warm welcome and a cold warning as US president visits China – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

China keen to put Taiwan at the top of agenda that risks being overshadowed by US-Israel war on Iran and disagreements over trade \u2013 key US politics stories from Thursday, 14 May at a glance
China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, has warned of \u201cclashes and even conflicts\u201d with the US over Taiwan after meeting Donald Trump<\/a> in Beijing.
Xi\u2019s remarks, published by China\u2019s foreign ministry after his two-hour meeting with Trump on Thursday morning, said Taiwan<\/a> was \u201cthe most important issue in China-US relations\u201d.
China is keen to put Taiwan at the top of an agenda that risks being overshadowed by the war on Iran and disagreements over trade. Beijing wants the US to reduce its levels of support for the self-governing island, which China<\/a> claims as part of its territory. Xi has made \u201cunification\u201d with Taiwan a core priority for his legacy and has not ruled out the use of force to achieve that aim.
Trump later said Xi had pledged not to send weapons to Iran, despite recent reports that Chinese arms manufacturers had discussed deals to supply weapons to Tehran.
Trump said he and Xi had \u201cknown each other for a long time\u201d and Xi was a \u201cgreat leader\u201d. Trump told Xi: \u201cI say to everybody you\u2019re a great leader. Sometimes people don\u2019t like me saying it, but I say it anyway, because it\u2019s true.\u201d
The White House\u2019s readout of the meeting said the two sides also discussed market access for US firms in China, and fentanyl controls<\/a>, but these two issues were absent from the Chinese readout. The White House said the two countries had \u201cagreed that the strait of Hormuz must remain open to support the free flow of energy\u201d and that Xi had indicated China could buy more oil from the US to lessen dependence on Iran.
Trump\u2019s decision to launch strikes against Iran in February, assassinating the leadership of a country with close ties to China and imperilling global energy supplies, has cast a shadow over talks that were supposed to be focused on reaching a trade deal between the world\u2019s two biggest economies.
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The Trump administration<\/a> is keen to do to fish what has been done to chickens \u2013 mass-produce them on an industrial scale to accelerate the US\u2019s output of seafood.
But this \u201cchickenification\u201d of fish may come at a hefty cost to the environment and to the fish themselves, as a new undercover video at one of the country\u2019s leading fish farms has highlighted.
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US southern states are rushing to redraw congressional maps to eliminate Democratic districts and dilute the influence of Black voters in electing candidates, a bare-knuckled blitz occurring even in some states where voting in congressional primaries has begun, and prompted by the US supreme court\u2019s decision gutting section 2 <\/a>of the Voting Rights Act.
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Republican senator Rand Paul\u2019s son William apologized on Wednesday for a drunken tirade at a bar in Washington DC, in which he reportedly told a Republican congressman he \u201chates Jews and hates gays\u201d.
\u201cLast night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don\u2019t represent who I really am. I\u2019m sorry and today I am seeking help for my drinking problem,\u201d William Paul posted on social media under the handle TastyBrew1776.
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A group of Miami residents has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump<\/a> and the state of Florida over a land giveaway for his proposed presidential library<\/a>.
Almost three acres of prime waterfront land that once belonged to Miami Dade College (MDC) was illegally gifted to the US president by Florida\u2019s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, the lawsuit<\/a> states.
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Mike Banks, the border patrol chief who oversaw the most aggressive militarization<\/a> of the US southern border in recent history, has resigned with immediate effect.
\u201cIt\u2019s just time,\u201d Banks told Fox News<\/a> in an interview. \u201cI feel like I got the ship back on course from the least secure, most disastrous, most chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The US supreme court <\/strong>upheld nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadow-docket decision<\/a> on Thursday.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has said ships entering the strait of Hormuz must cooperate with the Iranian navy<\/a><\/strong>, as reports emerged of a ship being seized outside a United Arab Emirates port and taken towards Iranian waters.
Missouri is the first state in more than a century where a state legislature is asking voters whether to eliminate the income tax, the Associated Press reports<\/a><\/strong>. But the move adds to other Republican-led states across the country that have also recently passed legislation to phase out income taxes.
Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Nethanyahu, and foreign minister, Gideon Sa\u2019ar, have threatened to sue the New York Times for defamation<\/a><\/strong> over the publication of an essay by Nicholas Kristof detailing allegations that Palestinian women, men and children have been raped and sexually abused in Israeli military detention.
The supreme court justice Samuel Alito,<\/a> who owns stock in oil companies, may be violating court ethics codes by participating in certain cases that could benefit big oil<\/a><\/strong>, government watchdog groups say.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 13 May 2026<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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