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After Trump's pledge to 'open up' China, low expectations for summit ...
Before arriving for his high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, United States President Donald Trump aimed to set expectations high.He said he would urge Xi to “open up” China’s economy and announced a delegation of top business executives, including Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, to accompany him.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Closing arguments begin in Elon Musk’s landmark lawsuit against OpenAIlist 2 of 4Cuba’s Diaz-Canel open to US aid amid worsening fuel crisis, blackoutslist 3 of 4UN aid convoy hit by drone strikes in Ukraine’s Khersonlist 4 of 4Explosions heard as mining groups stage antigovernment protest in Boliviaend of listAs Trump and Xi prepare to wrap up two days of meetings on Friday, the expectations for their summit’s outcome among observers generally are modest at best.While Trump and Xi are anticipated to extend the one-year pause in their trade war agreed to in South Korea in October, the expectations are for a stabilisation – not revitalisation – in ties between the world’s two largest economies, which are locked in a rivalry that spans everything from trade and artificial intelligence to the status of Taiwan.“It is important to be clear-eyed about the state of relations here,” Claire E Reade, a senior counsel at Arnold & Porter who previously worked on China at the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), told Al Jazeera.“China does not trust the US, and China wants to beat the US in what it sees as long-term global competition,” Reade said.“This limits what can be agreed.”While Trump and Xi have yet to announce the final contours of any trade agreement, the US side has flagged various business deals in the pipeline.In an interview with Fox News that aired on Thursday, Trump said that China would invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” in companies run by the CEOs in his delegation, without providing further details.Trump administration officials have also indicated that China is prepared to increase its purchases of US agricultural goods and energy, place orders for a large number of Boeing aircraft, and work to establish a “Board of Investment” to manage investments between the sides.“A realistic ‘opening up’ of the Chinese market would likely focus first on sectors where the economic complementarity is most obvious,” Taiyi Sun, an associate professor of political science at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, told Al Jazeera.“Agricultural goods su...
High ceremony, low expectations as Trump meets Xi in Beijing
On 11 May, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that US President Donald Trump will pay a three-day state visit to China beginning 13 May. The White House also released details of the itinerary, with the highly anticipated Xi-Trump meeting set to take place on 14 May. Originally scheduled at the end of March, Trump’s China visit was postponed because of the conflict involving Iran, as the White House announced in late March that Trump would visit China from 14 to 15 May instead. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs only announced on 11 May that, at Xi’s invitation, Trump would pay a state visit to China from 13 to 15 May.US President Donald Trump (left) speaks, flanked by US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, during a roundtable discussion on his "no tax on tips" policy at the AC Hotel Las Vegas Symphony Park in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 16 April 2026. (Jim Watson/AFP)In response to a question from a Chinese reporter during a regular press conference on 11 May, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Xi will have “in-depth exchanges of views with President Trump on major issues concerning China-US relations and world peace and development”.He said, “Heads-of-state diplomacy plays an irreplaceable role in providing strategic guidance for China-US relations. China stands ready to work with the US to expand cooperation and manage differences in the spirit of equality, respect and mutual benefit, and provide more stability and certainty for a transforming and volatile world.”According to the itinerary released by White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly, Trump will arrive in Beijing on Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning, he will attend a welcome ceremony, after which the Chinese and US leaders will hold bilateral talks. On Thursday afternoon, Trump and Xi will visit the Temple of Heaven, and Trump will attend a state banquet in the evening. On Friday, the two leaders will hold a bilateral tea gathering and working lunch, after which Trump will return to Washington.US officials also said that Trump is expected to pressure China over the Iran issue, adding that China’s financial support for Iran, as well as potential arms exports, would also be discussed. A farmer plants soybeans on farmland he leases on 6 May 2026 near West Bend, Iowa. (Scott Olson/AFP)According to reports by Bloomberg and Agence France-Presse, Kelly also said during a call with reporters, “This will be a visit of tremendous symbolic significance… The Amer...
Trump-Xi Summit: Expectations for comprehensive agreement remain low
The expectations of a comprehensive US-China grand bargain are fairly low, as this is the first of a few touch points between the two leaders this year. There will be an APEC Summit in Shenzhen, the G20 meeting in Miami, and a potential reciprocal visit to the US by President Xi later this year as negotiations continue. What do we expect?
What Trump and Xi are looking to get out of this week's summit in ...
As U.S. President Donald Trump travels to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the expectations around the highly anticipated summit between the leaders of the world's two largest ...
