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Trump praises Xi as ‘great leader’ at start of high-stakes talks in Beijing
As meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping began early Thursday, President Donald Trump praised the leader while highlighting their personal relationship.
“We’ve had a fantastic relationship. We’ve gotten along — when there were difficulties, we worked it out,” Trump said.
“Whenever we had a problem, we worked it out very quickly, and we’re going to have a fantastic future together,” he continued.
Trump also praised Xi, saying he has “such respect for China.”
“You’re a great leader,” Trump said. “I say it to everybody. You’re a great leader. Sometimes people don’t like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it’s true. I only say the truth.”
Trump added that he brought an extended delegation, including numerous business leaders, who he said “look forward to trade and doing business.”
He said the talks with Xi could amount to the “biggest summit ever.”
“I really look very much forward to our discussion. It’s a big discussion,” Trump said. “There are those that say this is maybe the biggest summit ever. They can never remember anything like it. I can say in the United States, people aren’t talking about anything else.”
“But it’s an honor to be with you,” he added. “It’s an honor to be your friend. And the relationship between China and the USA is going to be better than ever before.”
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4 mins agoXi says US, China should be ‘partners, not rivals’ at start of talks with Trump
Chinese President Xi Jinping opened meetings Thursday inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by highlighting shared interests with the United States and marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.
“Success in one is an opportunity for the other, and a stable bilateral relationship is good for the world,” Xi said in remarks translated into English.
“China and the United States both stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation,” he continued. “We should be partners, not rivals. We should help each other succeed and prosper together, and find the right way for major countries to get along well with each other in the new era.”
Addressing President Donald Trump, Xi said he looked forward to discussions on major issues important to both countries and the world.
“Mr. President, I look forward to our discussions on major issues important to our two countries and the world, and working together with you to set the course for and steer the giant ship of China-U.S. relations so as to make 2026 a historic landmark year that opens up a new chapter in China-U.S. relations,” he said.
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48 mins agoTrump meets Xi in Beijing as high-stakes talks begin
President Donald Trump arrived at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing shortly after 10 a.m. local time to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The two leaders shook hands before watching a welcome ceremony, standing side by side as their national anthems played.
They then walked along a red carpet to inspect a military honor guard.
Both leaders paused in front of dozens of children waving flowers during the ceremony.
The two leaders then entered the Great Hall to begin bilateral meetings.
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1 hour agoFormer Chinese military official says Beijing sees itself as equal to US ahead of Trump Xi summit
A former senior Chinese military official said Beijing increasingly views itself on equal footing with the U.S. as President Donald Trump prepares for a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Speaking with Fox News’ Brett Baier, Zhou Bo, a former senior colonel in China’s People’s Liberation Army, said Trump’s visit alone is seen as a win domestically.
“The fact that Donald Trump is visiting China is already a success,” Zhou said, adding that many in China now believe the country stands as an equal to the U.S. on the global stage.
Zhou also suggested China could play a role in easing tensions in the Persian Gulf, where conflict tied to Iran has disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. He described the situation as unstable and said it is in China’s interest to see a resolution.
“It is also in our interest to see an early ending of this war,” he said.
While acknowledging the disruption, Zhou said the impact on China’s energy supply is “bearable,” citing diversified energy sources and long-term planning, though he noted the broader instability still poses risks to the global economy.
On Taiwan, Zhou made clear the issue remains a core priority for Beijing and is expected to come up during the summit. He said any shift in U.S. policy language — particularly moving from not supporting Taiwan independence to actively opposing it — would be seen as a meaningful change by China.
Despite ongoing tensions, Zhou downplayed the likelihood of imminent conflict, saying China continues to favor “peaceful reunification” and framing the U.S.-China relationship as competitive rather than hostile.
“We are not your enemy… we are best described by you as a competitor,” he said.
1 hour agoMarco Rubio urges China to act on Iran as crisis impacts cargo and global shipping routes
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said China has a strong economic and strategic incentive to step in and help curb Iran’s actions in the Persian Gulf, warning the ongoing crisis threatens global stability.
Speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Rubio said Chinese-linked cargo has already been impacted, noting that ships tied to China are effectively stuck in the region amid uncertainty over safe passage through the Strait.
“You saw a Chinese, not Chinese-flagged vessel, but it was Chinese cargo got hit over the weekend,” Rubio said, adding that the situation highlights the risks of allowing selective access through the critical waterway.
Rubio argued the disruption poses a broader threat to China’s economy, which relies heavily on energy shipments moving through the Strait and on global demand for its exports. He warned that as economies struggle amid the crisis, demand for Chinese goods could fall and exports could “drop precipitously.”
He added that the U.S. hopes to push China to take a more active role in pressuring Iran.
“It’s in their interest to resolve this,” Rubio said.
1 hour agoRubio says US must balance rivalry and cooperation with China as tensions persist
Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that the United States must carefully navigate its relationship with China as tensions between the two global powers continue to grow.
“It’s both our top political challenge geopolitically, and it’s also the most important relationship for us to manage,” Rubio said during an appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity.”
Rubio pointed to China’s growing power as a key factor shaping global dynamics, saying clashes between U.S. and Chinese interests are inevitable.
“We’re going to have interests of ours that are going to be in conflict with interests of theirs,” he said, adding that maintaining peace and stability will require careful management.
At the same time, Rubio emphasized that the relationship is not purely adversarial and could include areas of cooperation.
“There might be some areas of cooperation, too, and we want to make sure we don’t walk away from those,” he said.
5 hours agoReport says China helped Iran rebuild missile and drone capabilities ahead of Trump Xi meeting
China has played a key role in helping Iran rebuild its military capabilities following recent U.S. strikes as President Donald Trump prepares to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, according to a report.
JINSA.org reported that Beijing has provided Tehran with dual-use items for ballistic missile production, as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities and air defense systems, helping Iran recover from damage sustained during recent conflicts.
The report said China also supplied sodium perchlorate, a key chemical precursor used in missile fuel, in quantities sufficient for hundreds of missiles, enabling Iran to rapidly rebuild its ballistic missile program after suffering significant losses.
JINSA.org reported that China continued bolstering Iran’s capabilities ahead of U.S. military operations, including by moving surveillance assets into the Middle East and working to strengthen Tehran’s offensive capabilities.
The report added that Beijing was sending offensive drones to Iran and was close to finalizing a deal for CM-302 supersonic missiles, while also deploying vessels capable of tracking U.S. naval activity and potentially providing targeting data for Iranian operations.
Chinese companies also published satellite imagery of U.S. military assets in the region, signaling Beijing’s ability to monitor American movements and potentially share intelligence, while China participated in joint naval exercises with Iran and Russia to enhance coordination.
The analysis argued that Trump’s upcoming summit with Xi presents a key opportunity for the United States to pressure China to halt its support for Iran and curb the transfer of military and dual-use technologies.
6 hours agoTrump gets red-carpet welcome in China, but past Beijing trip shows pageantry only goes so far
President Trump received a red-carpet welcome when he landed in Beijing Wednesday with a military honor guard, band and children waving American and Chinese flags ahead of high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The ceremony also highlighted the bigger question around Trump’s return to China about whether this visit can yield more lasting progress than his 2017 trip, which featured major business announcements but was followed by a sharp deterioration in U.S.-China trade relations.
The meeting comes as trade tensions, the Iran war and disputes over Taiwan place new pressure on Washington and Beijing to stabilize relations between the world’s two largest economies.
The red carpet was rolled out with a welcome ceremony consisting of a military honor guard and a military band with Chinese children waving American and Chinese flags.
Find out what else happened during the red-carpet welcome in China.
This is an excerpt from a story by Fox News Digital’s Ashley J. DiMella.
6 hours agoPompeo says Trump must press China on Iran support during high stakes talks
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that President Donald Trump should prioritize confronting China over its role in the Middle East as the president meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
“They know it’s diminishing our stockpiles of weapons. They know it’s distracting us and taking our attention,” Pompeo told Martha MacCallum on “The Story,” arguing that China has a political incentive to see conflict with Iran continue.
Pompeo warned that Chinese support for Iran — including potential transfers of technology — must be addressed directly during the talks, calling it a threat to U.S. interests and security.
“If there are, in fact, Chinese companies transferring technology that’s killing American kids, putting our lives at risk,” Pompeo said. “He needs to be very clear that that is completely unacceptable and tell XI Jinping, ‘stop it, don’t do that,’ and that we will hold them accountable if they continue to deliver weaponry and capabilities, whether it’s cyber mapping technology, targeting systems to the Iranian leaders, so they can put Americans at risk. That is completely unacceptable.”
He also accused China of using the conflict to weaken the United States strategically while benefiting from the diversion of American military focus away from the Indo-Pacific.
“I think their political objective is to say, let’s distract America, let’s cost them money, and let’s make life difficult for our adversary,” Pompeo said.
Pompeo added that longstanding issues such as intellectual property theft remain unresolved, expressing skepticism that meaningful progress would be made during the trip without increased pressure on Beijing.
7 hours agoChina tweaks Rubio name as sanctioned secretary joins Trump in Beijing
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Beijing with President Donald Trump despite being under Chinese sanctions, in a diplomatic workaround that appeared to hinge on Beijing altering the Chinese spelling of his name.
ChannelNewsAsia.com reported that Chinese officials began using a different character for the first syllable of Rubio’s surname shortly before he took office, allowing the government to sidestep sanctions that had barred him under the previous transliteration.
Rubio, who was sanctioned twice by China during his time in the Senate over his criticism of Beijing’s human rights record, was seen boarding Air Force One ahead of his first official visit to the country as secretary of state.
The report cited diplomats who said the name change likely enabled China to bypass the entry restrictions tied to the earlier spelling, though the Chinese embassy did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Despite his history as a vocal critic of Beijing, Rubio has supported Trump’s efforts to strengthen trade ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping, even as tensions persist over Taiwan, human rights and broader geopolitical competition.
7 hours agoBeijing draws red line on Taiwan as Trump heads into high stakes talks
China on Wednesday reiterated its opposition to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan ahead of President Donald Trump’s arrival in Beijing for high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as tensions over the island’s status remain a central flashpoint.
ChannelNewsAsia.com reported that the issue of Taiwan — which China claims as its own territory — is expected to be a key topic during Trump’s meetings with Xi, alongside broader concerns over trade and regional security.
A spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said Beijing “firmly opposes” any U.S. military ties with Taiwan, underscoring what it called a consistent and unequivocal position against weapons sales to the island.
“We firmly oppose the United States engaging in any form of military ties with China’s Taiwan region, and firmly oppose the United States selling weapons to China’s Taiwan region,” spokesperson Zhang Han said. “This position is consistent and unequivocal.”
The U.S. is legally required to provide Taiwan with defensive capabilities despite lacking formal diplomatic relations, and the Trump administration previously approved an $11 billion arms package for Taipei, the largest of its kind, according to ChannelNewsAsia.com.
Beijing has repeatedly described Taiwan as a “core” national interest and warned against any moves supporting its independence, with officials saying China’s resolve to oppose separatism is “as firm as a rock.”
8 hours agoSinema says Trump’s China visit signals AI showdown with high stakes
Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, co-chair of the AI Infrastructure Coalition, said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s trip to China is designed to project American dominance in artificial intelligence and send a message to both Beijing and Tehran as tensions over trade, technology and national security continue to grow.
“We have been in a race with China for AI dominance for a number of years, and it’s so incredibly important that American AI is the global AI,” Sinema said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.” “We know that China will develop AI with Chinese Communist Party values, they will sell it and allow folks like Iran to use it. And then, they will use that AI to hurt our interests.”
Sinema said Trump’s decision to bring top technology and finance executives to Beijing was intentional and strategic as the U.S. competes with China for leadership in artificial intelligence and advanced technology.
“I think it’s strategic that the president has taken leaders from the AI community and the companies that actually help build that American AI on that trip,” Sinema said. “He’s got Meta, he’s got xAI, he’s got Apple, but he also has the finance folks who are helping build that structure.
“So, what he’s done by taking these 17 leaders, handpicked, is he’s sending a message to China and by proxy to Iran,” Sinema added. “We’ve got the technology. We’re going to be in charge.”
8 hours agoStocks rise as Trump’s China trip fuels hopes for a major market shift
Stocks climbed Wednesday as investors bet President Donald Trump’s Beijing trip — which included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — could signal a softer U.S. stance toward China and a potential easing of tensions surrounding AI chip exports.
Reuters reported that markets closely watched Trump’s arrival in Beijing ahead of meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with investors searching for signs the two sides could stabilize trade ties as global economic pressures mount.
Huang’s presence on the trip also drew attention because Nvidia sits at the center of the global AI race and has been caught between U.S. export controls and Chinese demand for advanced semiconductors, highlighting the delicate balance between national security concerns and commercial ties with China’s technology sector.
Broader market concerns still lingered in the background after Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins warned additional interest rate hikes may be needed if inflation pressures do not abate, while oil prices remained elevated above $100 per barrel.
Reuters contributed to this report.
9 hours agoTrump resting before big Wednesday night (Thursday morning) schedule on Xi summit
President Donald Trump is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday morning in Beijing, with a bilateral meeting and state banquet on the schedule as the two leaders begin a closely watched summit.
Trump’s early schedule in China begins with executive time at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, which is 8 a.m. Thursday local time in Beijing.
The president is scheduled to arrive at the Great Hall of the People at 9:55 p.m. ET Wednesday, or 9:55 a.m. Thursday local time, before participating in a greeting with Xi at 10 p.m. ET.
Trump and Xi are then expected to hold a bilateral meeting at 10:15 p.m. ET Wednesday, or 10:15 a.m. Thursday in Beijing.
Later Thursday, Trump is scheduled to attend a state banquet hosted by Xi at the Great Hall of the People at 6 a.m. ET, or 6 p.m. local time.
China Standard Time is 12 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Breaking News10 hours agoAir Force One interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio airing tonight on ‘Hannity’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat down with Sean Hannity aboard Air Force One while en route to China for President Donald Trump’s high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The interview, which will air 9 p.m. ET on Fox News’ “Hannity,” focuses on the U.S.-China relationship, Trump’s upcoming talks with Xi and the ongoing conflict with Iran.
Rubio spoke with Hannity as Trump traveled to Beijing for the two-day summit, where trade, China’s support for Iran and Russia, semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence and U.S. agricultural exports are expected to be on the agenda.
Rubio made headlines Tuesday night on Air Force One, wearing the Nike tracksuit made famous by Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro during his capture earlier this year.
The sit-down comes as Trump and Xi prepare for closely watched negotiations that could shape the future of U.S.-China relations and determine whether the two countries can reach a broader trade agreement.
Watch Sean Hannity’s full interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio aboard Air Force One tonight at 9 p.m. ET.
China could face additional U.S. tariffs if President Donald Trump’s two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping does not produce results, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer warned Wednesday.
“If I were President Xi, I would worry if this is an unsuccessful summit after two days that China could be faced with even more tariffs from the United States,” Comer told Fox Business’ “Mornings With Maria.”
“I think this is a very important trip,” according to Comer.
“Obviously it’s historic, but we have a lot of problems with China,” he continued. “We really need to have a trade agreement, a fair trade agreement with China.”
Any agreement should include Beijing buying more American agricultural products and importing U.S. energy, while also addressing longstanding concerns about China’s conduct toward the United States, he added.
China is stealing intellectual property, manipulating its currency, ignoring environmental standards and helping fund Iran, Comer warned.
The U.S. should “hermetically seal” its market from Chinese vehicles, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, warned Wednesday on Fox News.
“What the Chinese have decided to do is create this massive auto industrial complex, not for domestic consumption, but to be predators in the Western world,” Moreno told “Fox & Friends.” “So if they came into the U.S., they would wipe out our automakers, completely devastate our steel industry, our rubber industry, our electronics industry.”
Moreno, who previously worked in the auto industry, said the sector makes up “about 10% of our entire economy” and argued Chinese vehicles also pose surveillance risks.
“These are roving surveillance devices,” Moreno said. “These things could be accessed remotely. They can be manipulated from Beijing. Imagine allowing these kinds of things all over our roads.”
Moreno has introduced a bill to bar Chinese vehicles from entering the U.S. market, including through neighboring countries.
“Our bill completely hermetically seals the United States from any Chinese automobiles — not just the production, not just the importation, but all the way down the supply chain,” Moreno said. “It’s finally time for Washington to be proactive and protect our industries and protect our American workers.”
Moreno said the legislation would also apply to Chinese vehicles attempting to enter from Canada or Mexico, with enforcement tied to vehicle identification numbers.
“Our bill prohibits the importation or driving of any Chinese vehicle on any American road,” Moreno said. “So if you went to Canada or Mexico and you try to drive into the United States after my bill passes, you would not be able to do that.”
11 hours agoSchumer says Americans should ‘fear what Trump may concede to China’
President Donald Trump could give Beijing major concessions to Xi Jinping during his visit to China, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned Wednesday.
“We all ought to fear what Donald Trump may concede to China, just so he can claim a headline,” Schumer said Wednesday on the Senate floor.
Schumer pointed to Trump’s talk of potential Chinese investment in the U.S., arguing it could threaten American supply chains and economic independence.
“Trump has fantasized about $1 trillion in Chinese investments in America,” Schumer said. “That would give the Chinese a stranglehold on our economy, threaten our supply chains, our economic independence, our national security.
“This is Trump empowering Xi’s Made in China ambitions, selling out American manufacturers and workers, giving CCP businesses an edge in undermining America, building industries of the future here at home.”
Schumer also warned Trump could make concessions on electric vehicles, chips, artificial intelligence, fentanyl and Taiwan, saying the risks extend beyond trade.
“Donald Trump could sell out Taiwan, whose people want to continue living in freedom instead of under the jackboot of the Chinese Communist Party,” Schumer said. “Any threat Trump allows Xi Jinping to make against the Taiwanese is a threat to global democracy. It’s also a threat to the global economy, given how many semiconductor chips are made in Taiwan.”
Schumer closed the China portion of his remarks by accusing Trump of being outmaneuvered by Xi.
“Forget the art of the deal, Trump is practicing the art of the duped,” Schumer said.
11 hours agoEnergy secretary says US in ‘nuclear renaissance’ as China expands arsenal
The United States is in a “nuclear renaissance” as lawmakers warned China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal and broader military capacity, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told senators Wednesday
“Thanks to President [Donald] Trump’s leadership, America’s nuclear renaissance is here,” Wright told the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration’s atomic energy defense activities.
The National Nuclear Security Administration is “delivering more new nuclear weapons and plutonium pits than at any time since the Cold War,” while carrying out seven major warhead modernization programs at once to ensure every leg of the nuclear triad remains “safe, secure, and effective,” according to Wright.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., used his opening statement to warn China is no longer pursuing a limited nuclear deterrent.
“Beijing is engaged in an unprecedented nuclear expansion under Xi Jinping,” Wicker said. “China is moving well beyond a minimum deterrent. Instead, China’s building a far larger and more sophisticated nuclear force.”
China has “rapidly constructed hundreds of new missile silos,” expanded mobile missile and ballistic missile submarine forces, and invested in long-range bombers as part of what he called a strategy “designed to surpass the United States in the coming decade,” Wicker added.
“China is executing this nuclear buildup alongside a broader military industrial surge,” he concluded. “Deterrence is expensive, but this is a competition we cannot afford to lose.”
13 hours agoChina unlikely to ‘stick their neck out’ for U.S. on Iran, former NSC official warns
China is unlikely to offer President Donald Trump meaningful help on Iran when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to a former National Security Council official warning Wednesday.
“The Iran war is going to dominate the subtext of this entire visit,” Michael Allen, managing director at Beacon Global Strategies and a former NSC senior director under President George W. Bush, told “Fox & Friends.”
“I don’t think China is going to stick their neck out on our behalf,” Allen added. “Maybe we get a little cooperation with them behind the scenes to urge the Iranians to meaningfully compromise, but I don’t think they’re going to give us anything on the order of what we want.”
Allen said the U.S. should use “all diplomatic levers” available, including pressure from Gulf allies such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to encourage China to play a more constructive role. But he said Beijing does not want to appear as though it is helping Washington or abandoning Iran.
“They don’t want to seem like they’re selling out their ally,” Allen said.
Allen warned that any economic progress should not obscure the larger strategic reality amid multiple ongoing global wars.
“We need to be clear-eyed about this, and that’s that the Chinese are not necessarily our friends on this,” Allen concluded.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is opening a new front in the long-running fight over COVID-19’s origins, convening a Senate hearing Wednesday with testimony from a CIA-linked whistleblower who Paul says will accuse the intelligence community of burying evidence tied to the pandemic’s beginnings.
The hearing comes as President Donald Trump is in China for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, putting the unresolved question of COVID’s origins back into the political spotlight at a sensitive moment in U.S.-China relations.
Paul previewed the hearing in a post on X, accusing U.S. officials of hiding the truth about the virus and pointing to research in Wuhan, China.
“Tomorrow, a CIA whistleblower will testify before my committee that the intelligence community has covered up the origins of COVID for years,” Paul posted Tuesday on X. “Evidence shows the US government funded research in Wuhan, and the resulting virus likely escaped from the lab. The cover-up is real — Americans deserve the truth.”
The hearing, titled “Whistleblower Testimony on the COVID Coverup,” is scheduled to being at 10 a.m. in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which Paul chairs.
Breaking News14 hours agoAir Force One delegation touches down in Beijing, Trump walks red carpet at 8:08 am ET
Air Force One touches down in Beijing, China at around 7:51 a.m. ET (Wednesday morning U.S. time and Wednesday night in China) at Beijing Capital International Airport.
The plane taxied for around eight minutes before doors opened to prep for the official red-carpet arrival.
President Donald Trump deplaned at 8:08 a.m. ET to be greeted by Chinese Vice President H.E. Han Zheng, along with U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S H.E. Xie Feng and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Ma Zhaoxu.
Following him off the plane were Trump’s son, Eric, and Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law, as well as assorted travelers, including Space X chief Elon Musk.
He did not answer questions, instead climbing in a limo on the way to his hotel.
The pomp-filled welcoming ceremony included some 300 Chinese youth, a military honor guard and military band.
“Welcome, welcome! Warm welcome!” the children chanted in Chinese.
Trump has no public events beyond his arrival on Wednesday’s schedule, but is set to meet with Xi a series of times Thursday and Friday.
The leaders will hold bilateral talks and a formal banquet Thursday.
Establishing a Board of Trade with China is going to be atop the agenda to address differences between the countries. The board could help stability the global economy, if not help push the world toward peace.
Three hundred youngsters waved miniature American and Chinese flags in front of themselves and then over their head in unison.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Breaking News14 hours agoTrump arrives at Beijing hotel with no other Wednesday events planned
President Donald Trump arrived at his Beijing hotel around 8:35 p.m. local time (8:35 a.m. ET).
A large crowd gathered outside across the street, according to the pool report.
This is Trump’s first visit to China in more than nine years, and notably the first after COVID-19.
Breaking News15 hours agoChina getting oil out of Strait of Hormuz before Trump-Xi summit
A Chinese supertanker — carrying two million barrels of Iraqi crude — was one of two vessels that crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday as President Donald Trump arrived in China.
Yuan Hua Hu is now the third known passage by a Chinese oil tanker through the strait since the start of the conflict.
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15 hours agoTrump confirms Nvidia’s Huang has seat on Air Force One for economic superpower summit
President Donald Trump issued a rebuke for fake news suggesting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is not traveling with him to China aboard Air Force One, pushing back on a report that Huang had not been invited to join the high-profile business delegation.
“CNBC incorrectly reported that the Great Jensen Huang, of Nvidia, was not invited,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, saying Huang was “currently on Air Force One” and joking that he would remain there “unless I ask him to leave, which is highly unlikely.”
“Jensen is attending the summit at the invitation of President Trump to support America and the administration’s goals,” a Nvidia spokesman confirmed to Fox Business.
Trump’s post came listed the roster of top U.S. executives that includes: Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, Cargill CEO Brian Sikes, Citi CEO Jane Fraser, GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon.
Trump said he plans to ask Chinese President Xi Jinping to “open up” China to American business leaders, calling Xi “a Leader of extraordinary distinction” and saying it would be his “very first request” when the two meet.
Huang’s presence is particularly significant because Nvidia sits at the center of the global AI race and has been caught between U.S. export controls and Chinese demand for advanced semiconductors.
The president framed the trip as a chance to expand access for U.S. companies in China, saying the executives traveling with him could “work their magic” and help raise economic ties between the two countries.
“I have never seen or heard of any idea that would be more beneficial to our incredible Countries,” Trump wrote.
Fox Business’ Elise Oggioni contributed to this report.
16 hours agoZelenskyy urges Trump to press China toward pushing Russia toward peace
While trade and the global economy might be higher priorities for President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is hoping to remain on the agenda, too.
Zelenskyy said Wednesday he hoped that Trump will discuss ending the war in Ukraine during his visit to China.
Ukraine has repeatedly urged China, which has close ties with Russia, to play a bigger role in bringing peace closer.
Reuters contributed to this report.
16 hours agoTrump to call on Xi to ‘open up’ China in summit to test trade, strength and peace
President Donald Trump is going to be pressing Chinese President Xi Jinping to “open up China” to more American trade.
“I will be asking President Xi, a Leader of extraordinary distinction, to ‘open up’ China so that these brilliant people can work their magic, and help bring the People’s Republic to an even higher level!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, previewing what he said would be his “very first request” when the two leaders meet.
Trump suggested that American entrepreneurs and executives could help drive growth inside China if Beijing lowers barriers and allows U.S. firms more room to operate.
China has tightened its grip on key supply chains, critical minerals and advanced manufacturing, while the United States has sought to protect its lead in semiconductors, artificial intelligence and defense technology.
The Taiwan question remains one of the most sensitive issues on the table. Any discussion of arms sales, military posture or Taiwan’s role in the global semiconductor industry could quickly overshadow trade pledges. Beijing has long treated Taiwan as a red line, while Washington has maintained security and economic ties with the island.
The Iran war also hangs over the talks. Reports ahead of the summit said the conflict and its effect on energy markets, inflation and global stability are expected to be part of the discussions.
President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday for high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as the world’s two largest powers prepare to negotiate about Taiwan, trade and a fragile U.S.-China relationship increasingly shaped by military tension and economic rivalry.
The meeting comes at a volatile moment for Washington, as a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran faces mounting strain following recent military exchanges in and around the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump is expected to press Xi on China’s economic and strategic support for both Iran and Russia, including oil revenue, dual-use components and potential weapons transfers, according to senior administration officials.
Top U.S. business leaders also are traveling with Trump to Beijing, including executives from Apple, Boeing, Tesla, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, highlighting the administration’s focus on securing economic deals alongside strategic talks.
This is an excerpt from Morgan Phillips report. Get the full story here.
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