{"id":342211,"date":"2025-10-30T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342211\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:22:19","slug":"live-updates-trump-meet-chinas-xi-in-south-korea-as-shutdown-impacts-widen-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342211\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump meet China\u2019s Xi in South Korea as shutdown impacts widen in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhcqxl2o000g3b6n443fcldx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The highly anticipated meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Donald Trump is the first face-to-face between the two leaders since Trump\u2019s return to office and the launch of the American president\u2019s expanded trade and tech war on China.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhcqxl2o000h3b6ne4ec7ut7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But the last time the two leaders met in 2019, they were also locked in a similar confrontation. Trump had launched tariffs on a huge swath of Chinese imports to the US, and was waging a campaign to keep Chinese telecoms giant Huawei out of Western networks.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhcqxl2o000i3b6n2unmwpr2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Then, trade negotiations had been paused for weeks when Xi and Trump met on the sidelines of the G20 in Osaka, Japan and agreed to restart talks.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhcqxl2o000j3b6n1yftnu5g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And despite the president campaigning on being tough on China, Trump\u2019s first year in office in 2017 \u2013 prior to an escalation of trade tensions \u2013 saw significant diplomacy between the two.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhcqxl2o000k3b6nn9mke678@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            During a November state visit to China that year, Trump became the first foreign leader in the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s 70-year history to have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/07\/politics\/trump-forbidden-city-beijing-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official dinner in Beijing\u2019s Forbidden City<\/a> imperial palace complex.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote_block-quote__text  vossi-pull-quote_block-quote__text inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\">\n                    Trump was clearly impressed, effusively thanking Xi on Twitter for \u201can unforgettable afternoon and evening at the Forbidden City in Beijing,\u201d and also hailing their \u201cvery good chemistry\u201d in an address at the end of the trip.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhcqxl2o000m3b6nzpuem1fd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Earlier that year, the two met for the first time at Trump\u2019s private residence in Mar-a-Lago, a meeting after which Trump infamously said that he informed Xi that he had just authorized air strikes on Syria as they ate chocolate cake at his oceanside club.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhcqxl2o000n3b6n50zwgz7v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The US president has repeatedly praised Xi, throughout his time in office and on the campaign trial, and said he respects the Chinese leader, including for his \u201ciron fist.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The highly anticipated meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Donald Trump is the first face-to-face between 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