Xi Jinping Announces Two More Meetings With Donald Trump at APEC and G20

Xi promises more talks

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that he will meet President Donald Trump two more times before the end of the year as he wrapped up his three-day state visit to Washington, doubling the number of face-to-face discussions between the leaders in 2026.

Xi’s announcement capped a visit that included a National Archives stop where Trump and Xi viewed the Constitution, Bill of Rights and other documents, and it came after the leaders discussed issues such as the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula behind closed doors for 90 minutes on Thursday.

Trump told reporters on Friday, “We had a great meeting. We had a really great meeting. Great for the farmers. Great for everybody,” while Scott Lincicome of the Cato Institute said, “A lot of pomp and circumstance or sound and fury but signifying nothing.”

Xi also invited Trump and first lady Melania Trump to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen in November and noted they could meet again a month later at the G20 summit at the Trump National Doral Miami golf club in Florida, and Trump responded, “We will, and we’ll be speaking a lot.”

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Trade truce extended

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that he and Xi’s Chinese counterpart agreed to a short-term extension of the two countries’ trade truce, ensuring the relationship would remain stable until well after the U.S. midterms. The BBC described the visit as focused on trade, AI and Taiwan, while the AP said there were no major breakthroughs this week on issues such as trade or the safety of artificial intelligence.

Scott Lincicome said the summit delivered little beyond ceremony, and Jeff Moon, a former U.S. trade official and diplomat in President Barack Obama’s administration who runs the China Moon Strategies consultancy, said, “Another summit without tangible results merely allows China to run out the clock on Trump’s second term without significant concessions.” The visit also included a state dinner with tech leaders, and the BBC said the dinner would be attended by US and Chinese officials as well as tech leaders, with both Trump and Xi expected to speak.

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Iran, AI, and next stops

U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue told CNBC that Trump asked Xi to avoid providing help to Tehran, and Perdue said, “any help that they would give Iran — whether it be direct or indirect, whether it be intelligence or parts or military equipment — was totally unacceptable.”

Trump and Xi also addressed artificial intelligence during the visit, and the BBC said trade, AI and Taiwan were three issues that could come up in discussions as the leaders moved through the White House program.

Xi said through a translator at the White House, “Looking ahead to the remainder of this year, there will be two more opportunities for us to meet each other — firstly the APEC meeting in China and then the G20 summit in the United States,” and Trump replied, “We will, and we’ll be speaking a lot.”

The next phase of the diplomacy was set to include APEC in Shenzhen in November and the G20 at the Trump National Doral Miami golf club in Florida, while the visit’s final stop at the National Archives included viewing “a variety of important records and documents significant to the American and Chinese relationship throughout history.”

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