CHINESE President Xi Jinping will visit Washington from September 23 to 25 for summit talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump, marking their second meeting in four months, a development Beijing has described as a “milestone of historic significance”. Xi will visit the US for three days at the invitation of Trump, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun announced at a media briefing here on Monday. During his talks with Trump, Xi will have in-depth exchanges on key issues concerning ChinaUS relations, as well as world peace and development, Guo said. “The reciprocal visits by the two heads of state within a span of six months will mark a milestone of historic significance,” he said. The two leaders last met in Beijing in May during Trump’s China visit, when they held talks aimed at improving ties between the world’s two largest economies. “China will work with the US to enrich the dimensions of the China-US constructive relationship of strategic stability, strengthen dialogue and cooperation and properly manage differences so as to deliver greater benefits to our two peoples and to further contribute to world peace, stability and prosperity,” Guo said.

 

Trump plans to accord a rare airport reception to Xi by personally receiving him on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, according to the Hong Kongbased South China Morning Post. From trade tariffs and technology to AI, military-tomilitary ties, the conflict in West Asia, the Russia-Ukraine war, the space arms race and US arms sales to Taiwan, a range of issues are expected to figure in the meeting between the two world leaders. Ahead of Xi’s visit, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer held “candid, in-depth and constructive” talks on economic and trade issues, including AI, on Sunday in New York. In his talks with He, Bessent said the US had proposed a new notification mechanism for artificial intelligence incidents that could affect national security. “We want a shared vision of common goals and common threats,” Bessent told the media in New York. “We think that just like any crossborder activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the No. 1 and the No. 2 AI powers in the world is very important.”