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Trump gets red-carpet welcome in China, but past Beijing trip shows pageantry only goes so far

President Trump received a red-carpet welcome when he landed in Beijing on Wednesday, with a military honor guard, band and children waving American and Chinese flags ahead of high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.The ceremony also highlighted the bigger question around Trump’s return to China: whether this visit can yield more lasting progress than his 2017 trip, which featured major business announcements but was later followed by a sharp deterioration in U.S.-China trade relations.The meeting comes as trade tensions, the Iran war and disputes over Taiwan place new pressure on...