Iran's Wednesday Deadline Expired While Trump Flew to Beijing
The May 13 deadline passed without a counter-text, strike, or extension — the ceasefire continues by inertia, not diplomacy, as Trump lands in Beijing.
Reuters and AP lead with Trump's Beijing arrival; the deadline's expiration is framed as background context, not the story itself.
X finance and foreign-policy accounts are asking what a 'passed' deadline means when nothing changed — treating the non-event as the event.