D onald Trump had expected a “big fat hug” from China when he visits Xi Jinping this week in thanks for reopening the Straits of Hormuz. He won’t get one though because he’s failed to end the throttling of Beijing ’s oil supplies. Good news for China because Trump is indifferent to his own failure. Bad news for Taiwan . Bad news for the West. Bad news for US allies around the world. Bad news for democracies in general. The US president will arrive for his summit with China exasperated that he has achieved none of his many and varied war aims in Iran . He will arrive having been humiliated by a weaker but dogged regime that survives in Tehran. Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping greet each other as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan in October 2025 (AFP/Getty) The results are likely to be a sudden shift in the tectonic plates of geopolitics to China’s advantage and Beijing has done almost nothing to deliver it.…