The BBC’s China correspondent and US editor explain everything you need to know ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting in Washington DC.

via Google News — A diplomatic split screen as Trump and Xi meet Reuters

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Xi’s first visit to Washington in a decade was a display of pomp and pageantry, with Trump offering his guest a two-month truce on the brewing tariff war.

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — US President Donald Trump welcomes his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping ahead of talks and state dinner.

via NBC News Top Stories — Both the U.S. and Chinese leaders are seeking to maintain stability in ties between the world’s two biggest economies, with few concrete results expected from their White House meeting.

via Home - CBSNews.com — President Trump is hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit as artificial intelligence safety discussions ramp up at the U.N. General Assembly. Graham Allison, a government professor at Harvard University, joins "The Daily Report" to discuss.

via US news | The Guardian — Fears persist about Trump ‘sucking up’ to Xi on Taiwan, but few concrete outcomes anticipated from US meeting When Xi Jinping, China’s leader, touches down in Maryland on Wednesday, he will step out into the arms – perhaps a hug , if Donald Trump’s wishes come true – of a US president who has shown China more bonhomie than any of his recent predecessors. The meeting between Xi and Trump this week will be the second time that the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies have talked face to fa

Fears persist about Trump ‘sucking up’ to Xi on Taiwan, but few concrete outcomes anticipated from US meeting When Xi Jinping, China’s leader, touches down in Maryland on Wednesday, he will step out into the arms – perhaps a hug, if Donald Trump’s wishes come true – of a US president who has shown China more bonhomie than any of his recent predecessors. The meeting between Xi and Trump this week will be the second time that the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies have talked face to face this year. At the previous summit, held in Beijing in May, there was much talk of building a “strategic stability” between the two powers. But there was little by way of concrete outcomes: the countries remain at loggerheads over trade, export controls and geopolitics. Continue reading...

Trump and Xi meet after six years, agree on tariff cuts, revived soybean trade, and cooperation in tech and minerals under new US-China Trade Deal.

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US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on May 13 for a new round of face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping from May 14 to 15, a meeting arriving at a particularly delicate moment in global politics and the international economy.

The meeting comes after weeks of uncertainty over whether the encounter would take place. A trade dispute flared earlier this month when Beijing expanded export curbs on rare‐earth minerals, prompting the US to threaten additional tariffs.

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