Chinese President Xi Jinping’s September 23-25 state visit to Washington ended without a joint statement, leaving the White House fact sheet and Beijing’s official readouts as the only formal record of what was agreed. Read side by side, the two accounts converge on the architecture of the relationship and on the channels for further talks, but diverge on almost everything that could be measured: every quantified pledge appears only in the US text, while Taiwan appears only in China’s.