Trump’s Removal of Another Xi Friend Complicates Planned Summit

One month before President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are set to convene at a much-touted summit in China, the US leader’s toppling of another friend of China risks stoking tensions between the world’s biggest economies.

After US and Israeli military strikes on Iran wiped out the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday called it “unacceptable to openly kill the leader of a sovereign country and institute regime change.” Speaking by phone with his Russian counterpart, Wang warned that the US president risked driving the Middle East into the “abyss.”