President Trump has already floated the first demand he will make in talks with China President Xi Jinping set for Thursday in South Korea.

If Xi wants to avoid antagonizing the commander-in-chief who is flexing US muscle with new military deployments and trade threats, he’ll have a ready response.

Trump said flatly this week that confronting the flow of fentanyl to the US would be “the first question I’m going to be asking.” 3

That amounted to a tip-off, and a noteworthy one given the long list of differences between the two powerful adversaries.

“It’s not the usual – it’s not soybeans for the farmers. It’s not that [China] failed to implement the January 2020 agreement. It’s not intellectual property theft. It’s not threatening Taiwan with daily aircraft and naval ships goin

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