{"id":793799,"date":"2026-05-13T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793799\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:15:14","slug":"trump-arrives-in-china-for-high-stakes-meeting-with-xi-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793799\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Arrives in China For High-Stakes Meeting With Xi: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

As President Trump arrived in China on Wednesday, U.S. negotiations to end the conflict in the Middle East have stalled and the American-Israeli military objectives in the war appear to be out of reach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have Iran very much under control,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters in Washington on Tuesday, repeating a threat to decimate Iran unless its leaders agree to a deal on the country\u2019s nuclear program. <\/p>\n

Yet talks seem to be deadlocked with the two countries unable to agree on constraints on Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment.<\/p>\n

The president also appeared to brush off the growing economic impact of the conflict, as Iran\u2019s de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz rattles global energy markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that matters when I\u2019m talking about Iran, they can\u2019t have a nuclear weapon,\u201d Mr. Trump said on Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think about Americans\u2019 financial situation. I don\u2019t think about anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iranian state media said this week that, in response to a U.S. proposal to end the war, Iran had demanded that the United States recognize its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, end sanctions and pay war reparations. Mr. Trump castigated the Iranian response as \u201cTOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.\u201d <\/p>\n

A cargo ship docked at the Port of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, last week. Credit…Amr Alfiky\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Experts on Iran say that those demands suggest the country\u2019s clerical rulers feel emboldened, believing that they have prevailed in the war by surviving a U.S.-Israeli attempt to overthrow them.<\/p>\n

Since the two sides agreed to a cease-fire last month, the United States has imposed a blockade on Iranian ports in an effort to compel Iran to relinquish control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and gas shipments once flowed. That appears to have had little success in forcing Iran\u2019s hand in negotiations. <\/p>\n

And while Mr. Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have said that Iran\u2019s military capabilities have been decimated during the war, U.S. intelligence agencies have privately painted a very different picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Iran has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile, according to the assessments. They also said that, despite extensive U.S. and Israeli bombardment, Iran had restored access to most of the missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, and still fields about 70 percent of its mobile launchers.<\/p>\n

Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran in late February, setting off a war that quickly engulfed much of the Middle East. Iran retaliated by firing volleys of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel and across the Persian Gulf, drawing in many of the United States\u2019 Arab allies. <\/p>\n

Soon after the outbreak of war, Lebanon opened up as another front in the conflict after the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel. The Trump administration has nominally declared a cease-fire in Lebanon, which was one of Iran\u2019s demands for a broader truce, but intense fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has largely continued. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, at least 12 people, including a mother and two children, were killed in southern Lebanon in a series of Israeli airstrikes on vehicles, the Lebanese health ministry said. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strikes.<\/p>\n

Also on Wednesday, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had targeted Hezbollah weapon storage facilities and rocket launchers in southern Lebanon, where Israeli troops still occupy a broad swath of the region. Hezbollah fighters have increasingly targeted Israeli soldiers in the country\u2019s south with low-cost, fiber-optic drones.<\/p>\n

Euan Ward contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As President Trump arrived in China on Wednesday, U.S. negotiations to end the conflict in the Middle East…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":793800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,74,315651,69782,5959,146713,83,322893,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,277,67,586,16852,132,5230,68,2969,11762],"class_list":{"0":"post-793799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-communist-party-of-china","11":"tag-customs-tariff","12":"tag-donald-j","13":"tag-huang","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-jen-hsun","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-trump","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116568164229463795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}