Trump and Xi end the visit with tea and the National Archives. The policy pile is still thin

The friendship tour is finished. The open files are chips, magnets, Taiwan and Iran. Pandas do not close those.

Friday program. Tea at the White House with the two first ladies. Then a tour of the Archives, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Trump: “Our farmers are going to be happy.” He gave no tonnage and no dollar figure.
Xi: the relationship is “strategic stability” based on respect, fairness and reciprocity. China’s readout says the trade teams reached a “new joint arrangement.”
They agreed to meet again this year. APEC in China in November. G20 in Florida in December. Each side will back the other’s hosting.
Two giant pandas will go to Atlanta.
No public deal on AI rules, Iran, or a long Taiwan formula. Xi, in China’s account of the private talks, asked the United States to oppose Taiwan independence.
BBC. Beijing wanted a year-long tariff pause. It got two months, to Jan. 10.

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