Trump will meet the Chinese President in Beijing next May. Find out the date
The US President announced Donald Trump that he will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing next May, after postponing a previous summit due to The war on Iran.
He said Trump He is looking forward to this historic visit, which was scheduled to take place at the end of March, and will receive Xi and his wife in Washington later this year.
Trump said on his platform Truth Social: "My meeting with the Honorable President of China, President Xi Jinping, which was postponed due to our military operation in Iran, has been rescheduled and will be held in Beijing on May 14-15."
Trump added that American and Chinese officials "They are putting the finishing touches on the preparations" For two visits "The two historical ones" To Beijing and Washington.
Trump continued: "I very much look forward to spending time with President Xi, in what will, without a doubt, be an historic event"
Trump was scheduled to go to Beijing from March 31 to April 2, for the first time during his second term, for a meeting aimed at resetting trade relations between the two largest economies in the world.
Trump requested a postponement
The Chinese and American presidents met in South Korea in October on the sidelines of a regional summit, and agreed to a truce in the trade war sparked by the global tariffs imposed by Trump.
But Trump He stated on March 16 that he had asked China to postpone the meeting due to the war in the Middle East.
He told reporters at the time: "Because of the war, I want to be here, I have to be here, I feel it, so we asked to postpone it for about a month"
The White House announced the new dates shortly before Trump’s post on social media.
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