China has formally invited U.S. President Donald Trump to Beijing for a summit with President Xi Jinping, but the White House has not yet responded as the countries are still far apart on trade issues and the flow of fentanyl,

President Donald Trump said trade talks with China had “gone very well” and hinted at a deal resolving US concerns over TikTok’s ownership. While Trump claimed an agreement had been reached, China has not confirmed any such development.

China’s pageant of authoritarian leaders is the kind of performative spectacle that President Donald Trump loves and is an obvious attempt to borrow his brand of big-splash diplomacy to show global power is shifting.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. and China have a deal that would keep TikTok operating in the United States, in an agreement that marks a breakthrough in months-long talks between the world's two biggest economies.

During the Cold War, it was a type of folk wisdom, if not a fairy tale, that in America, “ politics stopped at the water’s edge .” This meant that Democrats and Republicans put partisanship aside, presenting a unified front in service to the country’s “national interests” abroad.