{"id":581839,"date":"2026-05-13T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581839\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:34:10","slug":"donald-trump-lands-in-china-for-high-stakes-meeting-with-xi-jinping-live-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581839\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump lands in China for high-stakes meeting with Xi Jinping – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big names from US industry arrive with Trumppublished at 13:42 BST<\/p>\n

13:42 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Jonathan Josephs
Business reporter<\/p>\n

\"DonaldImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang (right) and Tesla’s Elon Musk (middle back) stand behind Trump and Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng<\/p>\n

Some big name business leaders have got off the plane with
\nPresident Trump in Beijing, the CEO\u2019s of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla and Boeing
\namong them.<\/p>\n

But overall the amount of trade between the two countries
\nhas been falling in recent years amid a deepening trade war, and the tariffs and
\nother trade restrictions that has brought.<\/p>\n

Last year two-way trade was worth $414.7bn (\u00a3307.3bn), which is along
\nway down on the $690.4bn (\u00a3511.6bn) that it peaked at in 2022.<\/p>\n

One of the big issues President Trump has is the unbalanced
\nnature of that trade, with America buying over $200bn more goods from China last
\nyear than it sold to it.<\/p>\n

\"DonaldImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

One way to tackle that is to sell more American goods to China, which will be popular back home for the jobs and opportunities it would create.<\/p>\n

Some of the most likely beneficiaries could be US soybean and beef farmers as well as planemaker Boeing.<\/p>\n

Its CEO Kelly Ortberg recently told investors he was “highly confident” of a deal that would mean “a big number” of new planes being ordered as a result of this summit.<\/p>\n

However, when China and the US struck a trade deal in President Trump\u2019s first term Beijing didn\u2019t buy everything it said it would. It remains to be seen if history will repeat itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big names from US industry arrive with Trumppublished at 13:42 BST 13:42 BST Jonathan JosephsBusiness reporter Image source,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-581839","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\/581839","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=581839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}