{"id":703,"date":"2026-05-14T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/620b86a7d93bd39e8338f640dde13d0c"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"trump-xi-truce-buys-australia-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Xi truce buys Australia time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-xi-truce-buys-australia-time.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5zvhg\"> Xi-Trump summit<\/a> in Beijing did not reset the world. It did something far more useful. It afforded stability in a sea of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>That should not be dismissed. In the present environment, stability is no small achievement. A war in the Persian Gulf. A disrupted Strait of Hormuz. Higher energy prices. Re-accelerating inflation. A strained Chinese economy. Midterm pressure in the United States. A still-dangerous Taiwan question.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xi-Trump summit in Beijing did not reset the world. It did something far more useful. It afforded stability in a sea of uncertainty. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}