Trump's Beijing visit ends in spectacle but with scant substantive gains

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Trump's two-day Beijing visit featured lavish ceremony and warm exchanges, but offered few concrete outcomes on Taiwan, Iran, or major trade and tech deals, leaving critical tensions between the US and China managed rather than resolved amid a spectacle of diplomacy.
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