the Irish Star<\/a>. Three hundred Chinese children dressed in blue and white waving American and Chinese flags welcomed Trump as he came down the steps.<\/p>\n![\"President](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_the_mirror_191\/0f80c0ea746bde27dae1f23da1b75439.jpeg\"\/)
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President Donald Trump was escorted by China’s Vice President Han Zheng upon his arrival<\/p>\n
He was met at the bottom of the steps by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng. Han and Trump proceeded down the red carpet together as the children chanted a welcome in Mandarin.<\/p>\n
Trump has traveled to China amid a particularly turbulent period in his presidency, with the Iran conflict continuing to intensify and Americans facing economic hardship as a consequence. The U.S. president is accompanied by technology and business leaders, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.<\/p>\n
The president is pursuing a diplomatic victory through agreements for China to purchase additional American food products and aircraft, indicating he’ll be discussing trade with Xi “more than anything else.”<\/p>\n
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President Trump was treated to an extravagant display for his arrival<\/p>\n
Taiwan and AI are also featured on the agenda. The Trump administration aims to initiate the creation of a “Board of Trade” with China to resolve disputes between the nations.<\/p>\n
Trump informed reporters earlier this week that he would raise with Xi an $11 billion weapons package for Taiwan that the U.S. administration green-lit in December but has yet to start delivering. The arms deal represents the largest ever approved for Taiwan.<\/p>\n
Trump has been pushing Xi, without success, to leverage China’s substantial influence to encourage Iran to accept U.S. conditions for ending the conflict that has dragged on for over two months – or, at minimum, reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lara Trump has accompanied her father-in-law, President Donald Trump, to China, stepping off Air Force One upon arrival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[91,250,12,202,81,6326,40111,4402,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-69604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eric-trump","8":"tag-air-force-one","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-eric-trump","13":"tag-lara-trump","14":"tag-president-xi","15":"tag-stephen-schwarzman","16":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116568124792274088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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