Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are set to meet in Beijing during Trump’s May 13-15 state visit
The Facts
- Donald Trump is scheduled to make a state visit to China from May 13 to May 15 at Xi Jinping’s invitation.
- Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are expected to hold talks during the visit.
- Chinese officials said the leaders will discuss China-U.S. relations and broader issues related to world peace and development.
- The meeting would be the first face-to-face meeting between Xi and Trump since their October 2025 meeting in Busan.
- Chinese officials described the visit as the first by a sitting U.S. president to China in about nine years.
- China said it wants to use the meeting to expand cooperation, manage differences, and add stability and certainty to the international environment.
- Some outlets, citing U.S. officials, reported that possible agenda items could include Iran and trade or investment arrangements, but no joint announcement of specific agreements had been confirmed in the source pool.
How left and right are reading this
- Both agree
- Direct Xi-Trump talks after a long gap are being treated as a meaningful chance to manage differences in the U.S.-China relationship, with both framings grounding the visit in reducing uncertainty rather than in any preannounced deliverables.
- They split on
- Less a disagreement than a question of emphasis: the meeting’s value as a stabilizing signal for the broader international environment versus its value as disciplined leader-level bargaining without overstating what the visit will produce.
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Context
Why is this meeting drawing attention?
It would bring together the leaders of China and the United States during Trump’s first trip to China in nine years by a sitting U.S. president, and it follows their last in-person meeting in Busan in October 2025 扬子网（扬子晚报）,news.cn,Cadena 3 Argentina.
What has China said the talks will focus on?
China’s foreign ministry said Xi and Trump will exchange views on major issues concerning China-U.S. relations and on questions of world peace and development 扬子网（扬子晚报）,news.cn,早报.
What remains unresolved before the visit?
Specific outcomes of the talks remain unclear. Reports citing U.S. officials say topics may include Iran, trade and investment mechanisms, and a possible extension of a trade truce involving rare earths, but those items were not confirmed as agreed outcomes by both governments in the provided sources RFI,星洲日报,早报.
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