Trump Meets Xi Jinping in Beijing

U.S. president in nearly a decade. The trip was originally scheduled earlier and delayed by approximately one month.

The White House stated that the postponement allows Trump to focus on managing the war with Iran and efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, whose closure has disrupted global energy markets. Trump said the summit might come together in five or six weeks.

Trump last met Xi in October 2025 in Busan, South Korea, where the two sides agreed a temporary truce in the trade war Trump launched last year.

Tariffs on China reached as high as 145 percent during that conflict. U.S. military technology and industrial supply chains.

U.S. factories halted operations as a result. China’s exports and imports set records in April, according to official data, even as the country’s trade surplus with the United States widened.

Those figures arrive as both governments seek to extend the Busan truce. U.S. poultry, beef, coal, oil and natural gas.

Beijing is in talks with Boeing for a deal that could include 500 737 Max jets plus dozens of wide-body planes. U.S. manufacturer since 2017.

Boeing chief executive Kelly Ortberg is among the corporate leaders confirmed to accompany Trump, alongside Citigroup chief Jane Fraser. U.S. arms package for Taiwan has been stalled by the State Department in advance of the summit.

On 8 May, Taiwan’s indigenous submarine Hai Kun SS-711 returned to dry dock in Kaohsiung City. -China relations. Xi visited Iran in January 2016. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to visit South Korea next week en route to China, a Yonhap report dated 9 May said.

U.S. technology and roll back tightened export controls. In return, Chinese officials may offer long-term commercial arrangements for rare earths and magnets for non-military uses.