{"id":55485,"date":"2026-09-24T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55485"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:38:28","slug":"trump-welcomes-xi-to-washington-looking-for-a-trade-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-welcomes-xi-to-washington-looking-for-a-trade-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump welcomes Xi to Washington looking for a trade win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters :\u00a0 US President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday for a lavish state summit expected to be heavy on symbolism but light on substance, with \u200bboth leaders keen to showcase stable ties despite a deep underlying rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the year&#8217;s second meeting of the leaders of the two biggest economies, but Xi&#8217;s first \u200cvisit to Washington in more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Trump greeted Xi on arrival on Wednesday evening, the first time a US president has welcomed a foreign leader at Joint Base Andrews in 11 years, when President Barack Obama welcomed Pope Francis in 2015, according to C-SPAN, which tracks presidential events.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on arrival carried by China&#8217;s Xinhua news agency, Xi voiced hope for a more stable relationship with the United States, saying Beijing and Washington should be &#8220;partners, not rivals&#8221; and that the &#8220;historical logic \u200bof peaceful coexistence&#8221; between the two countries had not changed.<br \/>\nFor Trump, who relishes ceremony and prizes his ties with powerful leaders, the visit is as much a matter of national prestige as \u200ban opportunity for high-stakes diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>The US president aims to reciprocate the grand welcome he received in China in May and impress Xi with a ceremony spanning the \u2060White House South Lawn, State Floor and Rose Garden.<br \/>\nMajor breakthroughs are not expected.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say tangible outcomes are likely to be limited to an extension of a trade truce expiring in November and an agreement to \u200bexamine threats posed by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Wednesday after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng that they had agreed to extend until January 10 an agreement that paused a \u200btrade war that saw mutual tariffs top 100%.<\/p>\n<p>People familiar with the plans say the talks could also yield deals to lower some tariffs, combat drug trafficking and expand military-to-military dialogue, while Trump is expected to seek the release of Americans and others detained in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters :\u00a0 US President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday for a lavish state summit expected to be heavy on symbolism but light on substance, with \u200bboth leaders keen to showcase stable ties despite a deep underlying rivalry. It will be the year&#8217;s second meeting of the leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55488,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485\/revisions\/55488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}