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China Not Committed to 2027 Taiwan Invasion, U.S. Intel Report Says​

Washington has determined that China does not plan to invade Taiwan in 2027, according to the U.S. intelligence community’s 2026 Annual Threat Assessment report published this week.

“The [intelligence community] assesses that Chinese leaders do not currently plan to execute an invasion of Taiwan in 2027, nor do they have a fixed timeline for achieving unification,” reads the report’s section covering China-Taiwan affairs.

Published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the report assessed that Beijing must seize Taiwan by 2049 to achieve its goal of a “national rejuvenation” by the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.

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  • China’s Xi and Trump agreed to build a “constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability.”
  • China’s door to opening up will only open wider, Xi said.
  • China expressed interest in purchasing more U.S. oil to wean off its reliance on Middle Eastern crude.
  • Xi reserved his sharpest language for Taiwan, calling it “the most important issue” in the bilateral relationship.
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Five takeaways from the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing so far

The two leaders agreed to forge more cooperative ties in a high-stakes meeting full of friendly gestures between two countries that have been battling for years.
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In photos: Trump kicks off high-stakes summit with Xi​

President Donald Trump was greeted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing Thursday, kicking off a highly anticipated summit that will include discussions on Iran, Taiwan and artificial intelligence.

Trump landed in Beijing on Wednesday evening local time and was greeted at the airport by China’s Vice President Han Zheng, a military band, and hundreds of young people waving flags.

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In photos: Trump kicks off high-stakes summit with Xi

The high-stakes summit is expected to cover a wide range of contentious topics, including trade, technology, export controls, Taiwan, and the Iran war.
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Decoding China's 15th Five Year Plan

China’s latest Five-Year Plan signals that it has become more pessimistic about the global environment, seeing it as uncertain and unstable. However, the Chinese Communist Party sees opportunity in that instability to promote the Community of Common Destiny, their new model of global governance. The Five-Year Plan also signals that the Chinese will continue to use the United Nations to advance this new global governance system.

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  • U.S. President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday and Friday.
  • The trip has gone a long way toward strengthening a fragile trade truce reached in October.
  • However, the two sides have yet to announce many specific agreements.
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Trump-Xi summit: the 3 big takeaways from historic meeting in Beijing

The two-day meeting wrapped up Friday, setting the tone for further U.S.-China talks this year.
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US expects 'double-digit billions' in Chinese farm purchases after Trump-Xi summit, says Greer​

May 15 (Reuters) - The United States expects China to sign up to buy "double-digit billions" worth of U.S. farm goods following a summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday.

Greer noted the 25 million metric ton per year soybean deal agreed last October and said the U.S. also expects to "see an agreement for double-digit billion purchases of ags over the next three years per year coming out of this visit."

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Underwhelming summit outcome in China brings Trump back to reality​

After raising high expectations ahead of his trip to Beijing, the U.S. president leaves with little to show for it, disappointing investors. On key flashpoints such as Iran and Taiwan, China didn't give any ground.​

Before his trip to China, Donald Trump faced outsized expectations – largely nurtured by himself.

But the reality of a complex and challenging relationship caught up with him.

And that includes the fact that China has the upper hand right now.

From a US perspective, the immediate outcome of his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was meagre: no grand breakthrough, but a mere stabilization of relations and a broad effort to prevent the superpower rivalry from spiralling further out of control.

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Tariffs were not brought up...?

Here's some very old history of China and the US - 1870's on - including the City of London's 300 year control

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Trump Meets Xi To FINISH What Britain Started 130 Years Ago​

00:00 The Trump-Xi meeting and China's hidden history with the City of London
00:24 Burlingame's four years inside China's deal flow
02:17 The Hu family, the attempted coup, and the City of London connection
02:38 Anson Burlingame and the 1868 treaty that gave China nation status
05:34 The Opium Wars as Britain's counter-move
06:54 Nixon's China opening was an anti-British operation
08:36 Watergate and Russiagate as the same playbook
09:59 Xi, Russia, and the US sharing intel on British assets in China
13:58 The British smear architecture against China
15:10 Why no state can win a war against China
16:30 The Hong dynasty — why "CCP" is a psyop framing
18:31 China as a land power, not an expeditionary one
19:39 China's industrial base and the financial kill chain
20:40 The latest coup attempt and the British stay-behind asset in the Red Army
22:00 The 1860s parallel — civil war, hoaxes, opium, coronavirus
24:26 Uyghurs, social credit, and the Rockefeller psyop
26:36 The China firewall and how China prevents colour revolution
29:13 The China-in-Africa psyop — projection, not extraction
31:14 Why Chinese mercantilism beats British intelligence operations
34:08 What Trump and Xi are actually negotiating — energy stability
38:12 Bankrupting the Anglosphere and forcing Iran to the table

 
Movie mentioned in video above... pop some corn!

Release date 2018
Run time 1:24:50

The China Hustle​

From the producers of Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room comes a Wall Street heist story about a still-unfolding financial crime so big, it has the power to affect all of our wallets. Investors on the fringes of the financial world feverishly seek new alternatives for high-return investments in the global markets, and have found a goldmine in China. But when one investor discovers a massive web of fraud, everything else is called into question. Jed Rothstein’s documentary rings the alarm on the need for transparency in an increasingly deregulated financial world by following those working to uncover the biggest heist you’ve never heard of.
 

Alex Krainer: It’s Starting: Massive Shifts Hit the Middle East & Europe​

 
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Trump’s Failed Mission to China

The Beijing circus is over and Donald Trump’s talks with Xi Jinping produced nothing more than some pleasing photo ops and some performative diplomacy with no substantive accomplishments.
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This is an extraordinary document written by the research arm of China's spy agency (the powerful MSS, basically the CIA and the FBI all wrapped in one) that absolutely zero media has picked up on.

As far as I can see, I'm the first person to write about it even though it was published (in Chinese) on May 13th on http://chinadiplomacy.org.cn
, a website of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The document contains perhaps the most authoritative description of where China thinks its relationship with the U.S. stands, and where it’s headed.

The title of the report is “The Great Global Transformation and the Path to U.S.–China Coexistence” and I provide a full translation of it in my article, the link of which is at the bottom of this post.

To summarize briefly the most important - and, perhaps, surprising - aspect of the document: China's spy agency - the one institution whose entire job is to worry about the U.S. threat - has largely stopped worrying.

That's really what transpires from the document. They use a strategic framework borrowed from Mao's "protracted war" theory and, according to this framework, America's offensive phase is finished and China weathered the storm intact.

The question is no longer "how do we survive America?" but "how do we manage America?" - and they're proposing a six-step relationship recovery program.

I'll let you read the full document as well as my analysis of it here:
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China's spy agency thinks the worst is over

This is an extraordinary document which contains perhaps the most authoritative description of where China thinks its relationship with the U.S.
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Decoding China’s 15th Five-Year Plan​

By COL Kyle Marcrum
China’s latest Five-Year Plan signals that it has become more pessimistic about the global environment, seeing it as uncertain and unstable. However, the Chinese Communist Party sees opportunity in that instability to promote the Community of Common Destiny, their new model of global governance. The Five-Year Plan also signals that the Chinese will continue to use the United Nations to advance this new global governance system.

As a result of Beijing’s growing pessimism, the United States could see a China that retrenches itself in the Western Pacific, hoping to stabilize its economy and its borders. Although worried, China could also see an opportunity in the chaos to shape its neighborhood without US interference, with further island-building in the South China Sea or other aggression toward its neighbors. This China will also use the worry and malcontent of nations to advance its vision for global governance, using the United Nations and its four Global Initiatives.

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Report to Congress on China’s Nuclear and Missile Proliferation​

The following is the May 19, 2026, Congressional Research Service in focus report, China: Nuclear and Missile Proliferation.

From the Report​

The U.S. government for decades has expressed concerns about China’s proliferation of nuclear- and missile-related technologies to other countries, with recent focus on the threat of Chinese acquisition of U.S.-origin nuclear technology. (See CRS In Focus IF11050, New U.S. Policy Regarding Nuclear Exports to China.) Official U.S. government sources indicate that the Chinese government has ended its direct involvement in the transfer of nuclear- and missile-related items, but China-based companies and individuals continue to export goods relevant to those items, particularly to Iran and North Korea. U.S. officials also have raised concerns about entities operating in China that provide other forms of support for proliferation-sensitive activities, such as illicit finance and money laundering.

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Report to Congress on China's Nuclear and Missile Proliferation - USNI News

The following is the May 19, 2026, Congressional Research Service in focus report, China: Nuclear and Missile Proliferation. From the Report The U.S. government for decades has expressed concerns about China’s proliferation of nuclear- and missile-related technologies to other countries, with...
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