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President Trump arrives in Beijing on May 14 for a two-day summit with Xi Jinping, where he intends to confront China over its financial and material support for both Russia and Iran. But a record of unfulfilled commitments from four prior Trump-Xi summits, the absence of any enforcement mechanism for potential agreements, and the economic pain of a 54% tariff regime raise hard questions about what, if anything, this meeting can produce.