{"id":12444,"date":"2018-11-29T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12444"},"modified":"2018-11-29T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:42:22","slug":"trump-enters-xi-meeting-over-trade-buffeted-by-economic-crosscurrents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12444","title":{"rendered":"Trump enters Xi meeting over trade buffeted by economic crosscurrents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over many months, Trump has been saying China might not be \u201cready\u201d to make trade concessions with the United States to avoid the punishing tariffs the United States imposed on Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now Trump is under pressure himself, headed to a high-stakes meeting with Chinese President\u00a0<strong>Xi Jinping<\/strong>\u00a0this weekend in Argentina. The outcome could signal how much anxiety Trump feels about the trajectory of the U.S. economy, and the impact on his presidency (<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fqbrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgljbjbyq_zpwrsspmpkrsbpbfrbfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fqbrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgljbjbyq_zpwrsspmpkrsbpbfrbfs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543578515816000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHVNOH9k4R9pRFZh6grulxeLwLOAQ\">The Hill<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;<\/strong>\u00a0Senate Republicans, meanwhile, are pressuring Trump to abandon his trade war with China (<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fqjrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgljbjbyd_zpwrsspmpkrsbpbfrbfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fqjrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgljbjbyd_zpwrsspmpkrsbpbfrbfs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543578515816000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFCYXP9wHJGveyvW4Dd8p_fgBcnHA\">The Hill<\/a>). \u2026 Separately in the Taiwan Straits, the U.S. Navy has increased the frequency of transits through the strategic waterway despite opposition from China. A U.S. destroyer and support vessel passed through on Wednesday (<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/sjklwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshmcmcpr_zpwrsspmpkrsbpbfrbfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/sjklwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshmcmcpr_zpwrsspmpkrsbpbfrbfs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543578515816000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHFqhHDVy6U2BTUik-QUAAPWvupng\">Reuters<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wfnzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmgwgwjv_zpwrsspmpkrsbpbfrbfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wfnzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmgwgwjv_zpwrsspmpkrsbpbfrbfs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543578515816000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHQ27C7fPlyX0Oku1q49InVVpK0ow\">Reuters:<\/a>\u00a0At the Group of 20 summit Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the president also arranged to hold meetings with the leaders of Russia, Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Turkey, Japan and India. His meeting with Xi is set for the end of the summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over many months, Trump has been&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12445,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444\/revisions\/12445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}