Economics
Xi May Put Ball Back in Trump’s Court on Talks With North Korea
- Sanctions have failed to stop Kim’s missile progress
- Trump, Xi expected to meet at G-20 summit in Germany
UN Security Council Will Meet on North Korea
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When Chinese President Xi Jinping sits down with Donald Trump in Hamburg this week, he’ll confront a growing rift on how to rein in North Korea. Xi’s solution might be to put the onus back on the U.S.
The meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit comes amid the U.S. president’s growing displeasure at what he sees as a lack of Chinese pressure on its ally, especially after Kim Jong Un announced his first test of a missile capable of reaching Alaska. “So much for China working with us - but we had to give it a try!” Trump said in a tweet Wednesday.