And so it ends.. Trump boards Air Force One to depart China after his visit

Trump’s state visit to China concluded with largely ceremonial outcomes — modest trade gestures (soybean purchases, Boeing plane orders, tech and AI chip investments) but no major breakthroughs. Markets are likely to see the ‘sidetracking’ from geopolitical risk wind down and attention shift back toward the Middle East and Iran, where substantive developments remain the primary risk driver. The visit is seen as stabilising in optics but unlikely to materially change the broader US–China trajectory, so any market impact should be limited and short-lived.