Trump heads to China this week to meet Xi as Iran war and trade disputes loom over summit – US politics live

It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017

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Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to China this week to meet with Xi Jinping, China’s leader. It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017. But given all that has happened so far in Trump’s second term – a trade war and then an actual war with Iran that has led to oil and gas prices skyrocketing worldwide – the mood of this visit is likely to be quite different.