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Rest of the World Report - May 14, Morning Edition
Xi opened with Taiwan. Not trade. Not Iran. Taiwan. The bilateral is done. The communiqué comes tomorrow. Three other rooms are open right now and none of them are getting the cameras.
① What Xi actually said in the room: Taiwan first, Iran vague, commerce warm. The international press consensus in one word: stability. The test is not what gets announced. It’s what Taiwan says after the cameras are off.
② Lebanon-Israel talks are underway in Washington. BRICS is underway in New Delhi. Both rooms are open. No results yet. The architecture of any lasting agreement is being built in the room…
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