{"id":581656,"date":"2026-05-13T12:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:17:10","slug":"donald-trump-lands-in-china-for-high-stakes-meeting-with-xi-jinping-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581656\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump lands in China for high-stakes meeting with Xi Jinping – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump to meet Xi in Beijing in first trip to China in nearly 10 yearspublished at 11:25 BST<\/p>\n

11:25 BST<\/p>\n

\"DonaldImage source, Reuters<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump will soon arrive in Beijing – the first visit to China by a US leader in nearly 10 years – ahead of a high-stakes meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping<\/p>\n

Air Force One will on Wednesday arrive in the Chinese capital, kicking off a two-day visit that was originally meant to be held in March, but was rescheduled after the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n

The war, and China’s emerging role in mediating a resolution, are likely to be discussed, though Trump said before leaving the US he didn’t need Xi’s help with Iran.<\/p>\n

Trade, technology and Taiwan are also expected to be discussed. Trump announced on Truth Social he would be asking his counterpart, who he described as a person of “extraordinary distinction”, to “open up” China to US major tech companies – whose leaders are joining him on the trip.<\/p>\n

For Beijing’s part, top of the agenda will be extending the trade truce agreed last October that halted tariff escalation between both countries.<\/p>\n

The trip, the first Trump has made to Beijing since 2017, will include an arrival ceremony at China’s Great Hall of the People and a stop at Zhongnanhai, the compound where China’s top leadership lives and work. We’ll bring you updates and analysis of key moments over the course of the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump to meet Xi in Beijing in first trip to China in nearly 10 yearspublished at 11:25 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-581656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581656","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=581656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}