Trump Returns From China Trip With Trade Pledges and Security Measures

President Donald Trump returned from a state visit to Beijing with announcements of new bilateral trade and investment boards between the United States and China. U.S. agricultural products and to restore access to Chinese markets for American beef and poultry. The two countries also advanced talks on rare earth minerals deals.

Trump said the outcomes would benefit American workers, farmers, and manufacturers while providing stability for businesses and consumers worldwide. White House staff collected every item given by Chinese hosts before boarding Air Force One, including gifts, badges, pins, credentials, and burner phones used by the delegation, according to the New York Post.

Personal devices had been left in the United States, and the delegation used only burner phones while in China.

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump said he does not love China owning farmland near military bases but warned that removing Chinese buyers would lower farm and land prices. "You want to see farm prices drop? You want to see farmers lose a lot of money?

Just take that out of the market," Trump said. U.S. universities rely on the roughly 500,000 Chinese students paying full tuition. "If you want to see a university system die, take a half-a-million people out of it," Trump said.

American ranchers at Meriwether Farms posted on X that hostile foreign nations should not be allowed to purchase American farmland. "So let us get this straight," the farm said in a separate post. " CCP refugee and anti-CCP activist Lily Tang Williams said Americans cannot buy a condo in China and therefore should not allow Chinese nationals to buy land in the United States.

Korean-American commentator Kangmin Lee wrote that the 500,000 university spots should go to American students first.