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Trump heads to Beijing for summit with Xi amid trade tensions and Iran war

President Donald Trump is traveling to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where they are expected to discuss trade, energy, and aerospace, among other key industries. Despite Trump's past praise for Xi, the meeting may yield few breakthroughs due to ongoing trade tensions and China's economic ties to Iran. The visit's grandeur is also anticipated to be less than Trump's 2017 state visit, as both leaders have a more nuanced understanding of each other and the geopolitical landscape. AI

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Trump heads to Beijing for summit with Xi amid trade tensions and Iran war

COVERAGE [4]

  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 · Neil Denslow,Raymond Ma ·

    Trump rejects ‘garbage’ Iran peace plan before heading to China

    US President Donald Trump said a month-long ceasefire with Iran was on “massive life support” as he rejected Tehran’s response to a peace proposal. The Iranian reply was a “piece of garbage”, Trump told reporters in the White House on Monday. “I didn’t even finish reading it.” Th…

  2. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 · Dewey Sim,Orange Wang ·

    China confirms dates for President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing

    US President Donald Trump will pay a state visit to China from May 13 to 15, at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, the foreign ministry in Beijing said on Monday. It will be the first visit to China by a US president in almost nine years and comes at a time of heightened ten…

  3. Fortune TIER_1 · Will Weissert, The Associated Press ·

    Trump and Xi may meet 4 times in the next 8 months as Air Force One heads to Beijing

    "Xi has a much better understanding of Trump" than their first meeting," said the Crisis Group's Ali Wyne, senior U.S.-China research and advocacy adviser.

  4. Fortune TIER_1 · Will Weissert, The Associated Press ·

    China may not offer breakthroughs when Trump meets Xi because Beijing is ‘working backward from our midterm elections’

    Trump could meet with China's leader four times in eight months.