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Donald Trump left Beijing empty-handed – but avoided something worse

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May 18, 2026

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics; Director, Lau China Institute, King’s College London When Britain sent its first formal diplomatic mission to China in 1793, one of the participants from London, Peter Auber, remarked that the group had been “received with the utmost politeness, treated with the ... <a title="Donald Trump left Beijing empty-handed – but avoided something worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/donald-trump-left-beijing-empty-handed-but-avoided-something-worse-282663/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump left Beijing empty-handed – but avoided something worse">Read more</a>

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