US President Donald Trump will visit China this week for a major summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. The meeting is taking place dur

Trump and Xi are set to meet in Beijing with tariffs, Taiwan tensions and the Iran conflict on the agenda as the U.S.-China relationship faces a critical test.

The US president’s ambitions to ramp up trade with Beijing will have to contend with political frictions over Taiwan and the war in the Middle East.

Following talks in Beijing, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping signed an agreement on eternal Friendship, Good-neighborliness and Cooperation between the two countries.

President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing on May 13, 2026, marking his first official visit to China since 2017 and his first trip there during his second term as president.The two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping is being closely watched worldwide as relations between the United States and China remain strained amid multiple global crises.

President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, and US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump visit the Palace Museum in Beijing on Nov 8, 2017. LAN HONGGUANG/XINHUA . T

Trump, while preparing to leave Washington D.C. for Beijing and his highly anticipated one-on-one meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, was asked by a reporter on the White House South Lawn to what extent “Americans’ financial situations” were motivating him to make a deal with Iran.