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Rest of the World Report - May 13, Evening Edition

Trump landed in Beijing tonight. Xi sent his vice president to the airport. The Secretary of State entered China under a name China rewrote to get around its own sanctions. The summit begins now. The rest of the world is not watching the same meeting you are.

① Trump's arrival in Beijing, the CEO delegation as its own story, the Taiwan reversal on the plane, and what the international press — from Al Jazeera to The Economist to Renmin University — is actually saying about who holds the leverage in that room. ② Israel killed 12 people, including children, on a Lebanese highway today. The…

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