Three American service members died in a missile strike on a Jordanian air base in July, and U.S. officials have since identified satellite imagery from Chinese entities as a likely enabler of that attack — the clearest link yet between Chinese support for Iran and American casualties. Yet when confronted with this on Air Force One, President Trump declined to treat it as a provocation, framing espionage instead as the ordinary grammar of nations watching one another. With a summit between Trump and Xi Jinping days away, the president's equanimity carried its own message: some deaths, it seems
Trump downplays China spy concerns after report links imagery to Iran strike
Three U.S. troops were killed in the July 17 missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.