# Inside Trump and Xi’s meeting: Spectacle over substance?

https://mins.news/en/video/74541

- BBC News, 2026-09-25 20:15 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGPBTztZiw4

> Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington has ended after a highly ceremonial trip that was expected to produce breakthroughs on AI cooperation and Taiwan. Despite the red carpets and warm rhetoric, the meeting made little progress on several key issues.

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