Trump departed Beijing on Friday with almost nothing concrete to show for his two-day summit with Xi. By ANTON TROIANOVSKI There was a vague agreement that China would purchase Boeing jets and more U.S. soybeans. There was discussion about Iran and opening the Strait of Hormuz, and a nod to other issues, such as cracking down on chemicals used to make fentanyl. But President Donald Trump departed Beijing on Friday with almost nothing concrete to show for his two-day summit wi

President Barack Obama, left, with President Raúl Castro of Cuba at an exhibition baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national baseball team in Havana, March 22, 2016. Last week, the Trump administration dramatically ramped up pressure on Cuba. The American embargo has left the country’s oil reserves empty. The U.S. military and spy agencies have stepped up surveillance flights around the island. (Stephen Crowley/The New York By JULIAN E. BARNES, TYLER PAG

A gas station in Havana, Cuba on May 2, 2026. In January, the Trump administration cut off oil shipments from Venezuela, which had been supplying a large amount of Cuba’s oil. (Lisette Poole/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES After months of a debilitating energy crisis that has caused widespread power outages, Cuba’s oil reserves has run dry, the government said, which is likely to plunge the country into even more frequent, bigger and longer nationwide blackouts. The gov

President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing during their two-day summit, on Thursday, May 14, 2026. In contrast to his rhetoric about China at home, President Trump spoke in conciliatory terms with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER For President Donald Trump, the first day of his visit to Beijing was all about the personal relationship between him and Xi Jinping, the Chinese

An Iranian military parade in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 10, 2025. Iran has regained access to roughly 90 percent of its underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide, according to the U.S. assessments. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ADAM ENTOUS, MAGGIE HABERMAN and JONATHAN SWAN The Trump administration’s public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what U.S. intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind closed doors, accor

President Xi Jinping of China and President Donald Trump with their wives during an opera in the Forbidden City in Beijing, Nov. 8, 2017. Beneath the public displays of warmth, Trump and Xi are at the center of the most consequential geopolitical rivalry of the 21st century, and their relationship is marked just as much by mistrust and confrontation as it is niceties. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER Just weeks ago, after the U.S. military seized a ship in t

President Donald Trump, left, meets with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. Beijing is signaling that it is ready for a trade showdown, and it is building up a legal arsenal in preparation.(Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and MURPHY ZHAO Peace and stability will be the public message when President Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, meet in Beijing this week. But behind the diplomatic platitudes, both govern

A billboard shows Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the late Iranian supreme leader, in Tehran, May 7, 2026. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. military could escalate the war “if necessary.” An Iranian official raised the prospect of increasing nuclear enrichment if it were attacked again. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By MAX BEARAK, KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and MEGAN MINEIRO As he departed for China on Tuesday, President Donald Trump sought to assuage concerns that the

Greces Vicuña at her home in Coquimbo, Chile, April 28, 2026. Has the situation improved enough since authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro’s ousting by the Trump administration to tempt Venezuelans who fled the country’s dire conditions to return to their homeland? (Anita Pouchard Serra/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA and PATRICIA SULBARÁN On Jan. 3, in the middle of a Buenos Aires, Argentina, summer night, a Venezuelan immigrant shook his girlfriend awake to tell her th

Traffic of motorcycles and cars on a street in Tehran, Iran, May 9, 2026. Talks between the United States and Iran stumbled again over the weekend. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN and MAX BEARAK As President Donald Trump said Monday that the ceasefire in Iran was on “life support,” countries around the world were bracing for prolonged economic woes stemming from high energy prices. The average price of gasoline in the United States has climbed to more t