Webinar | Trump’s Fraught Summit with Xi: Can “What Can Go Wrong” Be Prevented?
Published On: May 7, 2026
A CPDC WEBINAR
Trump’s Fraught Summit with Xi:
Can “What Can Go Wrong” Be Prevented?
Friday, May 8, 2026
1:00–2:15 p.m. ET
FULL TRANSCRIPT
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President Trump often praises Chinese dictator Xi Jinping with whom he is scheduled to meet next week in Beijing. What if the feeling isn’t mutual?
After all, Xi not only has long waged “unrestricted warfare” against our country, but repeatedly undermined the Trump presidency.
For example, the Chinese Communists reneged on commitments to seal a sweeping trade deal that, if implemented, would have corrected many of their abuses and been a yuuuge win for Mr. Trump.
Next, they launched a biological warfare attack that killed a million Americans and brought to a screeching halt his then-booming economic recovery.
In addition, the Chinese reportedly used their access to U.S. vote-counting hardware and software to help prevent his reelection in 2020.
Now, Xi is rearming Iran, choking off our access to rare earth minerals and continuing his imports here of murderous fentanyl. He is even menacing American companies that have treacherously helped prop up his regime, finance its military build-up and/or transfer proprietary and, in some cases, dual-use technology by impeding their efforts to exit China and obligation to conform to U.S. sanctions.
This CPDC webinar reviews what could go seriously wrong in a summit in Beijing with such an enemy in time of war, amidst growing bilateral tensions and given Xi’s grave economic, political and other problems for which a tempting response may be to invade Taiwan. It also considers whether, under these circumstances, the President would be well advised to postpone the trip once again and, failing that, how the possibly grave downside risks of holding it can be minimized.
Moderator
- Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; Member, Victory Coalition; host, “Securing America”
Panelists:
- Capt. James Fanell, U.S. Navy, (Ret.), Former Chief of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Senior Fellow, Geneva Center or Security Policy; co-author, Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure
- Charles “Sam” Faddis, Career CIA clandestine operative; veteran, U.S. Army, author of, among other works, Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA; editor, AndMagazine.Substack.com (Invited)
- Col. Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), former Foreign Service Officer; international businessman; Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy; author, When China Attacks: A Warning to America
- Sasha Gong, PhD — Former political prisoner in Communist China; former China Branch Chief, Voice of America; author of Born American: A Chinese Woman’s Dream of Freedom and documentary filmmaker
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