Trump racing against clock to avoid blundering major summit: analysis

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week on May 14, with the two nations expected to discuss ways of stabilizing U.S.-China relations, but as the summit draws closer, “the more urgently Washington” races to “freeze the Iran crisis,” lest Trump arrive with a “weakened” hand, journalist Charbel Antoun argued Saturday in an op-ed published in The Hill.

“This is the paradox now shaping U.S. strategy: The harder Washington pushes for a rapid Iran resolution before May 14...