What was actually achieved at Trump and Xi’s ‘stalemate summit’ in Beijing?

US president said he and Chinese leader ‘settled a lot of different problems’ but gave little detail on solutions

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Donald Trump’s whirlwind trip to Beijing – the first US presidential visit in nearly a decade – wrapped up with much fanfare but little clarity about what was actually achieved.

Trump said on Friday that he and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, “settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve”. But he didn’t provide much detail on what those solutions were.