Donald Trump has said China wants to buy oil from the US. that it will be buying a lot of American farm products.
He also told Fox News that Xi Jinping probably has the ability to influence Iran. amid expectations the US will urge Beijing at the summit to help convince Tehran to make a deal ending the war.
Trump also said on Fox’s Hannity program that he was not going to be much more patient over Iran. that the Iranian leaders the US was dealing with were reasonable.
He also said Xi Jinping was all business. no games, and that China would open up the country in stages.
Xi told a delegation of US business executives who travelled with Trump to Beijing. China would “open wider” to the world.
“American companies will enjoy even brighter prospects in China,” Xi was quoted as saying on Thursday.
US trade representative Jamieson Greer has told Bloomberg TV. an agreement for double-digit billions of dollars in agriculture sales to China is expected after Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing.
He also said it was important to China to have the strait of Hormuz open,. that the US believed Beijing was very pragmatic in respect to its involvement with Iran.
More on Greer’s comments soon.
By the time Donald Trump. Xi Jinping met at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Thursday, the bilateral had featured all the expected pomp and pageantry.
Conspicuously absent at the negotiating table. however, were women from either delegation – a stark visual that quickly drew criticism from observers who saw it as an unmistakable display of patriarchal power.
In a post on X that attracted more than 33,000 likes overnight. Gita Gopinath, an economics professor at Harvard University, said:
double quotation mark A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies. not one woman at the table.”
See the full report from Maya Yang here:
Why does Donald Trump look so at home in China?
The US president spent day one of his summit in Beijing basking in rigid pageantry, heroically managing not to offend his hosts. offering the verdict: “China is beautiful.”
A man who has shown authoritarian yearnings in his own country – discrediting elections. cowing universities, accusing journalists of treason – visibly delighted in one where the strongman fantasy is made flesh.
Not for the first time. he was far better behaved in one of the world’s most repressive regimes than when he shows up in Europe’s democracies like a human wrecking ball.
There has been a strange, uncharacteristic deference and circumspection about Trump since he left Washington.
See the full piece here:
Donald Trump began his final day in Beijing with a defensive social media post claiming Xi Jinping was not talking about him when he “very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation”.
The US president said the Chinese leader’s comments referred to former president Joe Biden.
Xi was only complimentary about Trump’s actions since returning to the White House in January last year. Trump said in his post on Truth Social.
double quotation mark President Xi was not referring to the incredible rise that the United States has displayed to the world during the 16 spectacular months of the Trump Administration … In fact. President Xi congratulated me on so many tremendous successes in such a short period of time.”
double quotation mark Two years ago, we were, in fact, a Nation in decline. On that, I fully agree with President Xi! But now, the United States is the hottest Nation anywhere in the world,. hopefully our relationship with China will be stronger and better than ever before!”
US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said the US policy on Taiwan is “unchanged” after the summit talks between Donald Trump. Xi Jinping in Beijing.
“Our policies on that have not changed,” Rubio told NBC News. “It’s been pretty consistent across multiple presidential administrations, and remains consistent now.”
Xi warned Trump on Thursday that China. the US could come into conflict if the issue over self-ruled Taiwan – claimed by Beijing – is mishandled.
“The Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations,” Xi said.
Donald Trump. Xi Jinping are set to meet on Friday to wrap up a high-stakes two-day state visit that has featured pomp and business deals but also a stark warning from Xi that mishandling the Taiwan issue could push US-China relations to “a very dangerous place”.
Trump is on the first visit by a US president to China since 2017. has been hoping for tangible results that might improve his sagging approval ratings ahead of the crucial midterm elections.
The two leaders are scheduled to have tea and lunch today before Trump flies back to the US.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio told NBC in an interview broadcast on Thursday that the US was hoping for a positive response from China on Washington’s appeals for the release of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai. others.
Lai, a prominent pro-democracy activist. critic of the Chinese Communist party, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong after being found guilty of national security and sedition offences. He later said he would not appeal against his conviction, opening the door for political negotiations to his release.
During the Beijing summit Trump has also been expected to urge China to convince Iran to make a deal with Washington to end a war unpopular with American voters. A brief US summary of Thursday’s talks highlighted what the White House called the leaders’ shared desire to reopen the strait of Hormuz. Xi’s apparent interest in buying US oil to reduce China’s dependence on Middle East supplies.
In other developments:
Trump told Fox News. China had agreed to order 200 Boeing jets – its first purchase of US-made commercial jets in nearly a decade. But markets were expecting a much higher number, with earlier news reports suggesting 500 or more could be involved,. Boeing shares fell more than 4% after the comments.
Xi’s remarks on Taiwan, the democratically governed island Beijing claims, represented a sharp warning during a pomp-filled summit that otherwise appeared friendly. relaxed. They came in a closed-door meeting that ran for more than two hours, Beijing said.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio told NBC News that Taiwan was discussed, saying the Chinese “always raise it.. we always make clear our position and we move on to the other topics”. Rubio is among a large contingent of US officials and business leaders who travelled with Trump to China.
At a lavish state banquet on Wednesday, Xi called the China-US relationship the most important in the world. added: “We must make it work and never mess it up.” Trump earlier told Xi their two countries were “going to have a fantastic future together”.
The summit has been aimed at maintaining a fragile trade truce struck when the leaders last met in October. Trump suspended triple-digit tariffs on Chinese goods and Xi backed away from choking global supplies of vital rare earths. With news agencies
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