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In lawsuit you’re conscionable joining us, here’s a recap of nan day’s events arsenic Donald Trump and Xi Jinping wrap up nan 2nd and last time of talks successful their much-anticipated two-day summit. It’s 2pm successful Beijing.
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The US president said “a batch of good” came from his China sojourn and “we’ve settled a batch of different problems that different group wouldn’t person been capable to solve”. “We’ve made immoderate awesome waste and acquisition deals for some countries,” Trump said while sitting adjacent to Xi successful Beijing’s Zhongnanhai activity compound, wherever they were to clasp their last talks of nan summit.
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Trump besides said: “We did talk Iran. We consciousness very akin astir [how] we want it to end. We don’t want them to person a atomic weapon. We want nan strait open.”
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US caput of authorities Marco Rubio said nan US argumentation connected Taiwan had “not changed”. “It’s been beautiful accordant crossed aggregate statesmanlike administrations, and remains accordant now,” he told NBC News.
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The White House said Trump and Xi had agreed during their talks connected nan request to support nan strait of Hormuz open. Trump said separately that his patience pinch Iran was moving out, arsenic a vessel was reportedly seized by Iran disconnected nan United Arab Emirates. “I americium not going to beryllium overmuch much patient,” Trump told Fox News. “They should make a deal.”
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Trump besides said hunting down Iran’s enriched uranium was chiefly for governmental optics, aft Israel demanded it arsenic a goal. “I conscionable consciousness amended if I sewage it, actually, but it’s – I think, it’s much for nationalist relations than it is for thing else,” Trump told Fox News from China.
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US waste and acquisition typical Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg TV nan US believed China was being “very pragmatic” successful respect to its engagement pinch Iran, and that he was assured Beijing would do immoderate it could to limit worldly support for Tehran.
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Greer besides said an statement for double-digit billions of dollars successful agriculture income to China was expected aft nan Beijing summit. Asked by Bloomberg if nan year-long waste and acquisition truce pinch China expiring this October would beryllium extended arsenic a consequence of nan Beijing summit, he said: “We’ll spot astir that ... there’s surely a willingness connected some sides that – if this continues to activity retired good for each state – to proceed that…”
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The US is hoping for a affirmative consequence from China connected Washington’s appeals for nan merchandise of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai and others, Marco Rubio told NBC.
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More topics discussed during nan US-China acme person been revealed by nan US president, pinch Trump claiming that he and Xi besides said astir North Korea, fentanyl and nan imaginable merchandise of 30 pastors from nan Beijing Zion Church who were arrested successful 2025.
Trump besides doubled down connected his assertion that China had agreed to bargain 200 Boeing jets, pinch nan imaginable for that number to emergence to 750, and stated that they would besides beryllium buying “billion of dollars” of soybeans.
Trump says that he and Xi said 'a lot' astir Taiwan
Donald Trump has said that he and Chinese president Xi Jinping said astir Taiwan, but that he did make not a committedness to his argumentation connected nan country.
Taiwan is simply a contentious taxable successful China, pinch some countries claiming sovereignty complete nan other, but Trump stated that he did not judge that location was a conflict successful Taiwan and refused to explain his stance connected nan struggle betwixt nan 2 countries, telling reporters that he had not thrown his support down either broadside and stating “we’re not trying to person wars”.
The rumor was brought up while pinch Xi successful China, pinch Trump responding to questions astir nan hostility by simply saying “China is beautiful”.
China markets autumn arsenic Trump leaves Beijing
The Chinese markets person fallen aft nan US-China acme that took spot successful Beijing, contempt Donald Trump touting caller business deals betwixt nan 2 countries.
China’s blue-chip CSI300 Index and nan Shanghai Composite Index each fell much than 1%, while The Hang Seng successful Hong Kong mislaid 1.6%.
Big deals betwixt nan 2 superpowers had been expected, but nan only agreements that came retired of Trump’s 2 time travel were arrangements for US lipid and soybean, arsenic good arsenic unconfirmed woody for China to acquisition 200 Boeing jets.
Summary
If you’re conscionable catching up, these ere are nan latest developments from Trump’s acme pinch Xi:
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Trump declared that galore deals had been struck betwixt nan US and China, including China buying 200 Boeing jets arsenic good arsenic US lipid and soybeans. This woody has not been confirmed by either China aliases Boeing.
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Trump besides stated that nan he and Xi discussed Iran, with the president claiming that nan 2 agreed that Iran should ne'er beryllium capable to person atomic weapons and that nan strait of Hormuz must beryllium opened arsenic soon arsenic possible.
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No advancement appears to person been made complete nan destiny of Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong pro populist activistic who has been sentenced to 20 years successful situation for collusion and sedition.
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Jamieson Greer, nan US waste and acquisition representative, told Bloomberg TV that an statement for double-digit billions of dollars successful agriculture income to China is expected aft Trump’s sojourn to Beijing.
Despite Donald Trump’s claims complete nan occurrence of his travel to China and nan deals he achieved during it, uncertainty remains complete whether nan agreements he made will travel to fruition.
When asked during a Friday greeting briefing if China had successful truth agreed to bargain nan 200 Boeing jets claimed by Trump, a spokesperson simply pointed towards that nan “important consensus” that some sides had achieved during nan sojourn and stated that nan “essence of China-U.S. economical and waste and acquisition relations is communal use and win-win cooperation.”
Boeing themselves person not confirmed specifications of immoderate order.
David Smith
Donald Trump has near China aft a two-day acme pinch President Xi Jinping that grounded to unrecorded up to nan hype.
What will beryllium remembered from this travel is Xi’s acheronian informing of “clashes and moreover conflicts” pinch nan US if nan position of Taiwan is not handled arsenic he sees fresh - and Trump’s nonaccomplishment to push backmost successful moreover a subtle way.
Indeed, past US presidents person travel to China pinch an attack reminiscent of Britain’s King Charles III’s caller sojourn to Washington: gracious and negotiated but making immoderate coded points astir occidental populist that were undeniable to those paying attention.
But Trump, a would-be strongman, crumbled successful nan beingness of nan existent point and was deferential throughout, utilizing nan connection “beautiful” complete and over. The only upside is that he did not alienate his hosts aliases rustle up their vulnerable waste and acquisition truce.
Trump achieved underwhelming deals for China to bargain US oil, soybeans and 200 Boeing craft and claims to person agreed pinch Xi that Iran must ne'er person a atomic limb - hardly a awesome revelation. The beingness of his boy Eric, who runs nan family business, smacked of corruption, and it was not wholly clear what nan accompanying tech titans achieved isolated from Elon Musk gurning for nan cameras.
Trump now returns to a world of home symptom successful nan US, pinch his little China picnic soon to beryllium forgotten. But nan symbolism for Xi and nan watching world was unmistakable: a rising powerfulness successful nan eastbound and a declining 1 successful nan west.
Trump departs Beijing aft talks pinch Xi
Donald Trump has now boarded Air Force One astatine Beijing Airport aft spending astir 2 hours successful nan Zhongnanhai activity compound speaking and speaking privately pinch Xi Jinping.
The president was accompanied to nan airdrome by Chinese overseas curate Wang Yi wherever a reddish carpet to awaited him, and sent disconnected by dozens of schoolchildren, who waved American and Chinese flags and chanted “farewell” successful unison.
Summary
In lawsuit you’re conscionable joining us, here’s a recap of nan day’s events arsenic Donald Trump and Xi Jinping wrap up nan 2nd and last time of talks successful their much-anticipated two-day summit. It’s 2pm successful Beijing.
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The US president said “a batch of good” came from his China sojourn and “we’ve settled a batch of different problems that different group wouldn’t person been capable to solve”. “We’ve made immoderate awesome waste and acquisition deals for some countries,” Trump said while sitting adjacent to Xi successful Beijing’s Zhongnanhai activity compound, wherever they were to clasp their last talks of nan summit.
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Trump besides said: “We did talk Iran. We consciousness very akin astir [how] we want it to end. We don’t want them to person a atomic weapon. We want nan strait open.”
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US caput of authorities Marco Rubio said nan US argumentation connected Taiwan had “not changed”. “It’s been beautiful accordant crossed aggregate statesmanlike administrations, and remains accordant now,” he told NBC News.
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The White House said Trump and Xi had agreed during their talks connected nan request to support nan strait of Hormuz open. Trump said separately that his patience pinch Iran was moving out, arsenic a vessel was reportedly seized by Iran disconnected nan United Arab Emirates. “I americium not going to beryllium overmuch much patient,” Trump told Fox News. “They should make a deal.”
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Trump besides said hunting down Iran’s enriched uranium was chiefly for governmental optics, aft Israel demanded it arsenic a goal. “I conscionable consciousness amended if I sewage it, actually, but it’s – I think, it’s much for nationalist relations than it is for thing else,” Trump told Fox News from China.
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US waste and acquisition typical Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg TV nan US believed China was being “very pragmatic” successful respect to its engagement pinch Iran, and that he was assured Beijing would do immoderate it could to limit worldly support for Tehran.
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Greer besides said an statement for double-digit billions of dollars successful agriculture income to China was expected aft nan Beijing summit. Asked by Bloomberg if nan year-long waste and acquisition truce pinch China expiring this October would beryllium extended arsenic a consequence of nan Beijing summit, he said: “We’ll spot astir that ... there’s surely a willingness connected some sides that – if this continues to activity retired good for each state – to proceed that…”
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The US is hoping for a affirmative consequence from China connected Washington’s appeals for nan merchandise of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai and others, Marco Rubio told NBC.
Asian stocks mostly retreated connected Friday arsenic investors watched for developments from nan Trump-Xi acme and nan Iran war.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.2% aft rising earlier successful nan day. South Korea’s Kospi mislaid 3.2%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down 0.9%, nan Shanghai Composite scale edged up 0.1% and Australia’s S+P/ASX 200 dipped 0.1%.
Taiwan’s Taiex traded 0.5% little and India’s Sensex was up 0.1%.
While location is optimism complete US-China relations, immoderate analysts are suggesting immoderate deals should beryllium viewed cautiously, nan AP reports.
“Headline deals should beryllium looked astatine pinch a patient grade of scepticism,” wrote Leahy Fahy and Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economists astatine Capital Economics, successful a Friday note.
A number of nan promised projects and investments that came retired of US-China deals from Donald Trump’s past China sojourn successful 2017 did not extremity up materialising, they said, arsenic tensions betwixt Washington and Beijing elevated quickly during nan fewer years aft that.
Oil prices climbed early connected Friday amid nan stalled US-Iran talks complete nan war, pinch brent crude – nan world modular – 1.3% higher astatine $107.06 per barrel.
How Trump is spending past hours of nan summit
Amy Hawkins
Donald Trump’s last hours successful Beijing are being spent successful Xi Jinping’s backstage residence, a secretive tract adjacent nan Forbidden City that fewer foreigners – aliases moreover locals – will ever get a glimpse of.
The US president will person luncheon location pinch Xi earlier leaving Beijing successful nan early afternoon, little than 48 hours aft he landed.
At a engaged intersection adjacent Trump’s hotel, nan crowds that gathered to drawback a glimpse of nan statesmanlike motorcade were thinner connected Friday greeting than connected Thursday evening, pinch nan dense constabulary beingness encouraging group not to loiter. Many grumbled astir nan inconvenience caused by nan repeated roadworthy closures.
Asked for their views connected Trump, nan connection that came up again and again from Beijingers was “unpredictable”.
“What he says isn’t needfully what it means,” said 1 Trump-watcher, who declined to springiness his name.
As Trump and Xi clasp their last talks successful Beijing, nan White House has shared nan database of participants for nan meetings.
Trump is joined by David Purdue, nan US ambassador to China; caput of authorities Marco Rubio; treasury caput Scott Bessent; defense caput Pete Hegseth and US waste and acquisition typical Jamieson Greer.
Xi is joined by Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to nan US; Cai Qi, a head of nan cardinal committee of nan Communist statement of China; overseas affairs curate Wang Yi; lawman overseas affairs curate Ma Zhaoxu; and He Lifeng, vice-premier of nan authorities council.
According to nan Associated Press, Donald Trump did thing highly different for him complete nan 2 days of meetings pinch Xi: he held his lingua successful beforehand of nan media.
Trump relishes taking reporters’ questions, often doing truthful astir each time successful nan US.
But Xi, for illustration astir China’s elder leadership, refrains from property conferences.
In what mightiness person been deference to Xi, Trump didn’t reply questions erstwhile reporters asked them while nan brace toured nan Temple of Heaven connected Thursday.
And he didn’t do truthful again connected Friday while stepping pinch Xi astatine Zhongnanhai.
Trump says he 'won't beryllium overmuch much patient' pinch Iran
Returning now to Trump’s earlier comments connected Iran, the US president said his patience pinch Iran was moving retired aft he discussed nan warfare pinch Xi Jinping connected Thursday.
It came arsenic a vessel was reportedly seized by Iranian personnel disconnected nan United Arab Emirates.
The White House said Trump and Xi had agreed during their acme talks connected nan request to support nan strait of Hormuz open.
“I americium not going to beryllium overmuch much patient,” Trump told Fox News’ Hannity programme successful an interview. “They should make a deal.”
In nan latest incidents successful nan strait of Hormuz, an Indian cargo alloy carrying livestock from Africa to nan UAE was sunk connected Wednesday successful waters disconnected nan seashore of Oman.
India condemned nan onslaught and said each 14 unit had been rescued by nan Omani seashore guard.
Vanguard, a British maritime information advisory firm, said nan alloy was believed to person been deed by a rocket aliases drone which caused an explosion.
Before they sat together, Trump and Xi spent astir 10 minutes stepping successful nan gardens of nan Zhongnanhai compound.
“These are nan astir beautiful roses anyone has ever seen,” Trump reportedly said while stepping past greenish columns and archways.
Xi later said he would nonstop immoderate roseate seeds to Trump “as a gift”.
Trump says 'a batch of different problems' settled pinch Xi
Donald Trump conscionable said his sojourn had been “incredible” and “I deliberation a batch of bully has travel of it”.
“We’ve made immoderate awesome waste and acquisition deals for some countries,” nan US president said.
double quotation markWe’ve settled a batch of different problems that different group wouldn’t person been capable to solve.
Trump said his narration pinch Xi Jinping was “a very beardown one”.
Sitting beside Xi successful Beijing’s Zhongnanhai activity compound, Trump besides said:
double quotation markWe did talk Iran. We consciousness very akin astir [how] we want it to end. We don’t want them to person a atomic weapon. We want nan strait open.”
He besides said that “we want them to get it ended because it’s a crazy point there”.
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are now sitting together successful Beijing’s Zhongnanhai activity compound analyzable and Xi is speaking.
Trump says getting Iran's enriched uranium 'more for nationalist relations'
Before these last meetings of nan Beijing summit, Donald Trump suggested that hunting down Iran’s enriched uranium was chiefly for governmental optics, aft Israel demanded it arsenic a goal.
“I conscionable consciousness amended if I sewage it, actually, but it’s – I think, it’s much for nationalist relations than it is for thing else,” Trump told Fox News big Sean Hannity successful an question and reply from China.
“The different point we could do is explosive it again,” Trump said. “But I, just, I would consciousness amended getting it, and we will get it.”
Israeli premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu, who alongside Trump ordered nan attacks connected Iran that began connected 28 February, said successful a caller question and reply that nan warfare was “not over” because nan delicate atomic worldly “has to beryllium taken out” of nan country, Agence France-Presse reports.
Iran has not confirmed nan location of its highly enriched uranium, which immoderate experts judge could beryllium buried heavy underground, making nan task of seizing it prohibitively difficult without precise intelligence.
Trump, successful a social media post connected Friday referring to his 2nd administration’s achievements, said they included “the subject decimation of Iran (to beryllium continued!)”.
Xi and Trump meet astatine Chinese activity compound
Donald Trump has reportedly arrived astatine Beijing’s Zhongnanhai analyzable – China’s activity compound – for a gathering pinch Xi Jinping.
The 2 leaders are group to airs together successful nan gardens of nan walled-off compound – adjacent to nan Chinese capital’s Forbidden City – and past person a moving beverage and a closed-door lunch.
Afterwards their two-day acme wraps up and nan US president is to time off China for Washington connected Friday afternoon.
The US waste and acquisition typical besides said uncommon world exports from China to nan US were improving but Beijing was still slow to o.k. immoderate shipments.
Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg TV that China was still dragging its feet pinch immoderate export licenses and US officials had to intervene connected nan behalf of affected companies.
“I would springiness them a passing people connected this,” he said successful nan interview.
double quotation markWe’ve surely seen nan uncommon earths travel backmost up to amended levels. Sometimes it’s slow. There are times erstwhile we person to spell and make our point.”
China introduced nan uncommon world export controls successful April 2025 successful retaliation for Donald Trump’s tariffs, and nan controls reportedly proceed to tightly restrict exports of immoderate uncommon earths contempt a woody past October successful which nan White House says Beijing agreed to let shipments to freely flow.
See our speedy explainer present connected why uncommon earths are truthful important and person been a flashpoint successful diplomacy and trade:
Greer was besides asked connected Bloomberg TV if nan one-year waste and acquisition truce pinch China expiring this October would beryllium extended arsenic a consequence of nan Beijing summit. He responded:
double quotation markWe’ll spot astir that ... there’s surely a willingness connected some sides that – if this continues to activity retired good for each state – to proceed that, and to widen this expertise to make judge we’re getting uncommon earths, that we’re trading nan types of things we should beryllium trading to China, and we’re trying to negociate differences alternatively than escalate them.”
