At this White House state dinner, the main course is crispy sesame-skinned sea bass, served with stewed baby bok choy and roasted eggplant. For the starter, there’s a pumpkin cream soup, and the whole meal is finished with a ring of scallion-oil drizzle. With American ingredients as the base and Chinese flavors as a touch, the White House itself describes the menu just like that.
The time is this morning Beijing time—9:24 p.m. in the U.S. Eastern time—and the venue is the East Room of the White House. This is President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States, hosted by the Trump couple. Before the meal began, California’s Schramsberg sparkling wine was raised in a toast, specifically paying tribute to the “Peace Toast” between Nixon and Zhou Enlai in Beijing in 1972. Guests also include tech executives like Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk.
The pandas were announced at the daytime welcome ceremony: in a few days, the giant pandas “Pingping” and “Fushuang” will move into the Atlanta Zoo. That facility sent four pandas back to China in October 2024 and had been without any for nearly two years—this time, it’s finally been picked back up.
My take is that the atmosphere has been set up generously, but there aren’t many hard, concrete items. The most tangible one for now is that the trade truce has been extended from November 10 to January 10 next year—just two more months. Tariffs, rare earths, chips—these are the issues that are truly difficult to negotiate—are still being pushed to the next round. The pandas and the sea bass are signals, not an agreement.
The market is also behaving pretty straightforwardly. From last night to now, Bitcoin has been hovering around 84,000 without breaking out of its range. Over the past 24 hours it’s basically flat, showing no sign of moving in response to this dinner. If you’re looking to trade the news, wait until the formal tariff outcomes actually land—don’t treat the state dinner menu as a positive catalyst.
#特朗普 #中美 #TrumpXi
The time is this morning Beijing time—9:24 p.m. in the U.S. Eastern time—and the venue is the East Room of the White House. This is President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States, hosted by the Trump couple. Before the meal began, California’s Schramsberg sparkling wine was raised in a toast, specifically paying tribute to the “Peace Toast” between Nixon and Zhou Enlai in Beijing in 1972. Guests also include tech executives like Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk.
The pandas were announced at the daytime welcome ceremony: in a few days, the giant pandas “Pingping” and “Fushuang” will move into the Atlanta Zoo. That facility sent four pandas back to China in October 2024 and had been without any for nearly two years—this time, it’s finally been picked back up.
My take is that the atmosphere has been set up generously, but there aren’t many hard, concrete items. The most tangible one for now is that the trade truce has been extended from November 10 to January 10 next year—just two more months. Tariffs, rare earths, chips—these are the issues that are truly difficult to negotiate—are still being pushed to the next round. The pandas and the sea bass are signals, not an agreement.
The market is also behaving pretty straightforwardly. From last night to now, Bitcoin has been hovering around 84,000 without breaking out of its range. Over the past 24 hours it’s basically flat, showing no sign of moving in response to this dinner. If you’re looking to trade the news, wait until the formal tariff outcomes actually land—don’t treat the state dinner menu as a positive catalyst.
#特朗普 #中美 #TrumpXi