Trump Meets Xi Jinping for Two-Day Summit in Beijing

President Donald Trump is scheduled to land in Beijing tomorrow night for a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that will include bilateral meetings, a tour of the Temple of Heaven, a state dinner on Thursday night and tea between the two leaders on Friday.

Trump will be joined by Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Larry Fink of BlackRock, Chuck Robbins of Cisco, Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron, Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm, Dina Powell McCormick of Meta, Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, Brian Sikes of Cargill, Ryan McInerney of Visa, Jane Fraser of CitiGroup, Jacob Thaysen of Illumina, Jim Anderson of Coherent, Larry Culp of General Electric, Michael Miebach of Mastercard, Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs and others.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was not invited to join the trip.

The two leaders last met in October, when they paused a flurry of tit-for-tat trade tariffs that began in February 2025. Trump imposed 20 percent tariffs on China that month after accusing Beijing of allowing fentanyl to enter the United States. U.S. oil and agricultural machines. U.S. officials have said that Trump wants to finalize the details of a board of trade with China during the trip.

-Israeli war against Iran would be over. The summit comes one week after Beijing hosted Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. China is a close ally of Iran and the world's biggest buyer of Iranian oil.

Trump said yesterday that Washington's longstanding support for Taiwan's defense would be on his agenda for the Beijing summit. Taiwan is a self-governing island that Beijing claims as part of its territory.

““President Xi would like us not to, and I’ll have that discussion. That’s one of the many things I’ll be talking about.””