War has significantly altered major Trump meeting with Xi

With just a few weeks left before President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, it seems that the U.S. war in the Middle East will, in all likelihood, remain unfinished business, if not a major obstacle to addressing longstanding issues between the two countries.There is little question that the war and its consequences for global trade will be agenda item number one for that much-anticipated summit between the world’s two most powerful leaders. While...