U.S. President Donald Trump participates in an arrival ceremony at Beijing Capital Worldwide Airport throughout his go to to the nation, in Beijing, China, Could 13, 2026.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has landed in Beijing for a extremely anticipated presidential summit together with his Chinese language counterpart, Xi Jinping.
Trump is being accompanied on the journey by a gaggle of executives from a few of America’s most dear firms, together with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia boss Jensen Huang.
The president was greeted on the tarmac by a brass band and flag wavers, who carried out as he descended the steps of Air Pressure One.
On Thursday, Trump is scheduled to take part in a welcome ceremony and maintain a bilateral assembly with Xi, earlier than touring the historic Temple of Heaven and attending a state banquet.
He’ll go away China on Friday, following tea and a working lunch with Xi.
The high-stakes talks between the 2 leaders are anticipated to cowl tariffs, uncommon earths, synthetic intelligence, the Iran warfare and Taiwan. Consultants are anticipating that Trump and Xi could announce massive Chinese language orders of American planes and soybeans when the conferences are concluded.
In a Reality Social publish on Monday, Trump stated he anticipated “nice issues” to come back out of the summit.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., who simply travelled to China with a congressional delegation, stated Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Field” that it’s “in each leaders’ curiosity to maintain the connection steady, and to de-escalate, not decouple.”
“We hope to see some sort of commerce offers come out, I believe will probably be Boeing, beef and beans,” Daines stated.
— CNBC’s Evelyn Cheng contributed to this report.

