{"id":26345,"date":"2025-07-27T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26345\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:03:08","slug":"exclusive-trump-eyes-autumn-china-trip-but-september-visit-off-the-table-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26345\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Trump eyes autumn China trip, but September visit off the table: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is keen to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3318921\/donald-trump-and-xi-jinping-tipped-meet-ahead-or-during-apec-summit-south-korea?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visit China<\/a> but a September visit is not happening, according to sources, who said Beijing and Washington were working to secure a trip in October or November.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hurdles remain, but high-level officials \u201cshare a consensus\u201d, sources familiar with the matter told the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports earlier said that China planned to invite Trump to the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3315563\/china-mark-80th-wwii-anniversary-military-parade-beijing-september?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victory Parade<\/a> in Beijing on September 3 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.With September now off the table, Trump might visit China before heading to the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-apec?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec)<\/a> summit in South Korea, or he could meet Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the event between October 30 and November 1, according to sources.Sources also described the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3317897\/odds-high-xi-trump-meeting-rubio-says-after-constructive-talks-wang-yi-asean?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kuala Lumpur meeting<\/a> between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his US counterpart Marco Rubio earlier this month as \u201cbetter than expected\u201d. It was the first in-person engagement between the respective top diplomats \u2013 an essential step before any leader-level summit can occur \u2013 and both sides praised the meeting as \u201cpositive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Another person familiar with the discussions said there was a possibility of a meeting later this year, with two options under consideration: Trump could either visit China for bilateral talks before heading to the Apec summit, or attend Apec first and then travel to Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump is keen to visit China but a September visit is not happening, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16427,16417,16422,16424,5713,84,891,16426,141,1294,16421,2841,6875,16425,16420,16423,16419,1787,16416,16418,56,54,55,741,5926],"class_list":["post-26345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-apec","tag-apec-summit","tag-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation","tag-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese-foreign-minister-wang-yi","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-european-parliament","tag-florida","tag-hong-kong","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-marco-rubio","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-october","tag-state-visit","tag-the-quad","tag-trump-china-trip","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}