{"id":73389,"date":"2026-05-12T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/trump-to-head-to-china-for-high-stakes-talks-with-xi-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:00:04","slug":"trump-to-head-to-china-for-high-stakes-talks-with-xi-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/trump-to-head-to-china-for-high-stakes-talks-with-xi-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to head to China for high-stakes talks with Xi \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting comes amid tentative trade truce but Iran, Taiwan and tensions over global supply chains will be complicating factors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the Iran war, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> said the ongoing fragile ceasefire was <strong>\u201con life support\u201d<\/strong> after dismissing Tehran\u2019s peace proposal as <strong>\u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would call it the weakest, right now, after reading that piece of garbage they sent us \u2013 I didn\u2019t even finish reading it,\u201d he told reporters in the Oval Office yesterday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/12\/donald-trump-china-iran-redistricting-jeffrey-epstein-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting comes amid tentative trade truce but Iran, Taiwan and tensions over global supply chains will be complicating factors Sign up for the Breaking News US email On the Iran war, Donald Trump said the ongoing fragile ceasefire was \u201con life support\u201d after dismissing Tehran\u2019s peace proposal as \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d. \u201cI would call it the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump to head to China for high-stakes talks with Xi \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/trump-to-head-to-china-for-high-stakes-talks-with-xi-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump to head to China for high-stakes talks with Xi \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}