Trump-Xi Summit Kicks Off in Washington as ASEAN Watches Nervously

China's Xi Jinping touched down in Washington this week for his first state visit to the US capital in over a decade, greeted personally by President Donald Trump on the tarmac in a rare planeside welcome. The three-day visit — saturated with pomp, a flyover, and a White House state banquet — signals both leaders' desire to stabilise the world's most consequential bilateral relationship. Analysts say Beijing is seeking "strategic stability" rather than a grand deal, while the...