China senses alternative when Donald Trump visits later this month. A nakedly transactional US president in want of a commerce deal, and hoping that Beijing may lean on Iran, would possibly shift on Taiwan in return. China’s overseas minister, Wang Yi, linked the difficulty explicitly to broader bilateral cooperation in his name with Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, on Thursday. Beijing can be delighted to see Mr Trump soften the US place, and maybe pull again on arms gross sales after a mammoth $11bn bundle was introduced late final yr.
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