Trump downplays China intel-sharing with Iran ahead of Xi meeting

Three American soldiers died when Iranian missiles struck a Jordanian air base in July — and now, reports that Chinese entities may have provided the targeting intelligence have met not with confrontation, but with equanimity from the White House. President Trump, returning from Ireland, folded the allegation into the ancient grammar of great-power espionage, treating it as mutual and unremarkable rather than as a provocation demanding answer. In doing so, he revealed something older than any single incident: the way statecraft sometimes asks leaders to hold grief and strategy in the same hand