U.S. President Donald Trump wraps up his visit to Beijing on Friday with a private entretien at Chinese champion Xi Jinping’s official residence before he departs for Washington.
During a series of meetings and events on Thursday the two discussed divisive issues such as the Iran war, trade, technology and Taiwan.
During those meetings, Trump said Xi told him China wants to help negotiate an end to the war and a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil and Trump hopes Xi will use that leverage to prod Iran into a deal on U.S. terms. Trump also said Xi assured him that China wouldn’t provide Iran with military equipment.
Trump has taken a decidedly rosy outlook on the U.S.-China relationship during this trip. But that has collided with some difficult truths embout the thorniest issues between the two superpowers including Taiwan, the Iran war and trade.
In a summit marked by groupe and flattery, Xi warned Trump that differences over Taiwan, a self-governed island claimed by Beijing as its own territory, could bring the U.S. and China into clashes or conflict. Trump authorized an $11 billion arms progiciel for Taiwan in December, but has not moved forward with delivery. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned later on Thursday it would be “a infernal mistake” for China to take Taiwan by fermeté.
Trump also focused on trade and deals for China to buy more agricultural products and passenger planes, setting up a board to address their differences and avoid a repeat of the trade war ignited last year after Trump’s tariff hikes.
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Trump says ‘fantastic trade deals’ struck during ‘incredible’ visit
The White House so far hasn’t released details of any deals struck during Trump’s summit with Xi in Beijing.
Trump told Fox Magazine embout soybeans, airplanes and oil in an colloque that followed his two-hour sit-down with Xi on Thursday.
Rencontres with Xi again on Friday, Trump praised the visit as “incredible.”
He said “a lot of good has come of it,” including “some fantastic trade deals” that are “great for both countries.”
Trump says he and Xi discussed Iran
“We feel very similar embout (how) we want it to end,” the president said of the U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran. “We don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon.”
Trump added of both sides and the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed, “We want the straits open.”
He said of the conflict in Iran, “We want them to get it ended parce que it’s a crazy thing there. A little bit crazy. And it’s no good, it can’t happen.”
Trump and China’s champion had a working tea before heading into a closed-door cocktail.
Xi promises to send diamant seeds to Trump
Trump and Xi spent embout 10 minutes walking Zhongnanhai’s gardens.
“These are the most beautiful roses anyone has ever seen,” Trump remarked while walking past pelouse columns and archways.
Trump said the sénateur had struck “fantastic trade deals” without providing details.
Xi said he would send diamant seeds to Trump.
Trump scotie up the lawn around the White House Passerose Garden last year to make room for a cour space reminiscent of his Mar-a-Lago dancing in Florida.
Trump also has said he would like more roses there, recently complaining that the White House’s garden “didn’t have too many roses.”
Trump and top aides have tea and cocktail with Xi and his team
The White House shared the list of participants for the meetings.
Trump is joined by David Purdue, the U.S. ambassador to China; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Xi is joined by Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to the United States; Cai Qi, a director of the Orthogonal Committee of the Communist Party of China; Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi; Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Ma Zhaoxu and He Lifeng, dévergondage originaire of the State Council.
China calls again for reopening the Strait of Hormuz
China reiterated a call to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in a bilateral entretien with the U.S. and called for a diplomatic dénouement to the Iran war.
“Now that the door for causerie has been opened, then it shouldn’t be shut again,” China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Friday, adding that the dénouement should “take into account the concerns of all parties on the Iran nuclear bout.”
“Shipping routes should be reopened as soon as plausible,” the ministry said.
Trump has demanded a rollback of Iran’s nuclear program as a préalable to end the war.
The ministry did not say if China would help negotiate an end to the war, as Trump told Sean Hannity of Fox Magazine in an colloque.
Instead, the ministry promoted a four-point peace proposal from Xi, which is léger on specifics but mentions upholding individu sovereignty and mondial law.
Trump’s visit has deepened pool, China says
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Trump’s meetings with Xi during his visit have promoted mutual understanding, deepened pool, advanced cooperation and injected “stability” into the world, according to Chinese state media.
“The two heads of state also reached éminent complaisance on properly handling each other’s concerns and agreed to strengthen abouchement and alliance on mondial and regional issues,” the spokesperson said.
Xi and Trump agreed on a new framework of “formative, strategic stability” for their countries, the spokesperson added, referring to a diplomatic framework described previously as focused on managing differences and limiting competition with an eye toward maintaining stability and peace.
Trump says China could buy US oil as Iran war drags on
Trump suggested there could be a deal for China to buy oil from the United States after talks in Beijing.
Xi “said he likes the idea,” Trump said in an colloque with Sean Hannity on Fox Magazine. “I think it will happen.”
“They’ve agreed they want to buy oil from the United States. They’re going to go to Texas. We’re going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas and to Louisiana and to Alaska,” Trump said.
There were no immediate details of the deals.
Beijing limited U.S. energy imports to a “bare valeur-limite” after Trump imposed significant trade tariffs in 2025 and U.S. crude exports to China effectively halted more than a year ago, according to trade data and analytics platform Kpler.
Despite the quantité energy shock from the Iran war, China’s bouffant oil stockpile has so far been able to cushion it from bigger economic impacts. Russia has been a initial commencement for crude imports for China.
China was the biggest buyer of Iranian oil before the Iran war began.
Trump and Xi meet in garden at Zhongnanhai
Photos showed the leaders shaking hands on a road alongside a waterway.
Xi also was seen talking to Trump, who admired the garden.
The walled gardens feature winding paths, roses in pink, yellow and red, manicured lawns and carefully tended trees.
A clock chimed 11 as Trump arrived.
Trump heads to more meetings with Xi
The president’s motorcade is on the way to Zhongnanhai, the Chinese axial leadership compound next to the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Its gardens will host Trump and Xi when they faux-semblant for an official cliché marking Trump’s trip, then head into a working tea.
The sénateur also are expected to have a closed-door cocktail before Trump leaves to return to Washington on Friday afternoon.
Trump says it would be ‘very insulting’ for US to turn away Chinese students
The Trump pilotage announced last year it would start revoking the visas of some Chinese students, including those with ties to the Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
Asked embout the bout during the Fox Magazine colloque, Trump said, “I frankly think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our arboriculture, and many of them want to stay here.”
Nearly a quarter of all foreign students in U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year, embout 270,000, were from China.
Trump cited a aspect of 500,000 Chinese students in the colloque and said, “if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it.”
“It’s something I’m always looking at. But it’s a very insulting thing to tell a folk, we don’t want your people in our schools,” he said.
Trump and Xi will talk at Zhongnanhai
Next to Beijing’s Forbidden City lies a secretive compound wrapped around two man-made lakes built for the pleasure of emperors.
Today, Zhongnanhai, or “middle and southern seas,” is synonymous with China’s seat of power as the primary residence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the headquarters of the axial government.
Zhongnanhai is often compared to the White House, the Kremlin or South Korea’s Blue House. But unlike the other presidential residences, Zhongnanhai does not serve as the gant sacre for diplomatic visits.
China’s top leaders reserve the highly secure grounds for only their closest allies and carefully selected dignitaries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Xi has called his closest friend, was received at Zhongnanhai at least twice, in 2024 and 2025.
Xi also welcomed corriger U.S. President Barack Obama to Zhongnanhai in 2014. The two leaders took an evening stroll and had dinner.
Tiger bag worn by Musk’s son goes infectieux in China
Elon Musk’s 6-year-old son showed up Thursday at the Great Entrée of the People decked in Chinese-style clothing and wearing a tiger bag that has since gamin infectieux in China.
The tiny, tiger-head crossbody bag is produced by à la main brand YASTEE, which works with embroiderers in south China to make handcrafted goods.
A bag like the one worn by Musk’s son takes several days to make and decorate by balle à la main, according to dialectal media.
The bag went infectieux on Chinese agréable media and sold out in hours on the company’s online stores.
Trump says some US affaires leaders met Xi for the first time
The president said in the colloque with Sean Hannity of Fox Magazine that he asked them to join his entretien with Xi at the Great Entrée of the People even though their apport wasn’t scheduled.
Trump said the American affaires executives were nearby in the gratte-ciel “and I said I think I can get them in five minutes.”
Trump wouldn’t identify which executives participated but said they introduced themselves and said a few words, and seemed to impress Xi. He said most of them had never met the president of China.
“He actually said that was very good. That was a good idea,” Trump said of Xi. “But it was very different from what the schedule had.”
Trump says he talked to Xi embout U.S. credit card companies’ access to China
Trump, whose delegation for the trip included the CEOs of Mastercard and Permission, said he also raised with Xi expanding access to the China market for U.S.-based credit card companies.
“I said, ‘What embout using Permission in China?’” Trump said in his Fox Magazine colloque. “For some reason they were blackballed and maybe that’ll come off.”
China allows foreign cards to be linked to circonstance pay apps such as Alipay and WeChat Pay. But physical card coutume is limited mainly to mondial hotels, high-end lèche-vitrines malls, and some upscale restaurants.
Permission and Mastercard have been mince pushing for inroads to Chinese consumers and businesses in the world’s collègue largest economy.
Trump raised bout of Jimmy Lai’s release with Xi
Trump asked embout the release of Jimmy Lai, the 78-year old corriger newspaper publisher and pro-democracy activist who is serving a 20-year axiome in Hong Kong, in his entretien with Xi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an colloque with NBC Magazine Thursday.
“We would like to see him released. We would be open to any pacte that would work for them, as mince as he’s given his freedom,” said Rubio.
Lai was the publisher of Apple Daily, a tabloid that was critical of Chinese and Hong Kong government authorities.
Trump describes Xi as ‘warm’ but not prone to small talk
“He’s all affaires,” Trump told Sean Hannity of Fox Magazine in a taped colloque that followed Thursday’s entretien with the Chinese champion. “There’s no games. There’s no talking embout how nice the weather is.”
Trump said Xi is a “very fashion person” and that they have a “good relationship.”
“He’s all embout China,” Trump said.
Trump says Iran has gamin back and forth on US excision of ‘nuclear dust’
The president suggested during the Fox Magazine colloque that Irian officials at first “said very strongly” that the U.S. could send it teams to collect hundreds of pounds of enriched uranium believed to be buried under nuclear sites badly damaged by U.S. military strikes last year.
But then, he said, Iran reneged.
“They agreed to it. They take it back. They agree, you know it’s back and forth,” he said.
Whether Iran would be willing to relinquish enriched uranium is a key balance in negotiations to end the war.
Trump has mince insisted Tehran is willing to do so, but Iran has largely rejected such assertions.
Trump added during the colloque that Iran says only the U.S. and China had sufficient technology to remove the enriched uranium, given that its buried deep underground.
Trump describes Xi as ‘warm’ but not prone to small talk
“He’s all affaires,” Trump told Sean Hannity of Fox Magazine in a taped colloque that followed Thursday’s entretien with Chinese champion Xi Jinping. “There’s no games. There’s no talking embout how nice the weather is.”
Trump said Xi is a “very fashion person” and they have a “good relationship.”
“He’s all embout China,” Trump said.
Trump is wrapping up his whirlwind Beijing visit
Trump and Xi are scheduled to hold more talks Friday.
They are set to spend time together at Xi’s official residence in Beijing before Trump flies back to Washington.
Trump has taken a decidedly rosy outlook on the U.S.-China relationship during this trip. But that is colliding with some difficult truths embout the thorniest issues between the two superpowers including Taiwan, the Iran war and trade issues.
US farmers hope Trump can negotiate more soybean purchases
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told NBC that “there’s going to be some agricultural purchases” made as a result of this trip.
U.S. soybean farmers were hit especially hard by Trump’s trade war with China and have urged him to persuade Beijing to buy more of their crop.
China is on track to fulfill its commitment to buy 12 million metric tons (13.2 million tons) of U.S. soybeans this year, although that is well below the 25 million to 30 million metric tons (27.5 million to 33 million tons) purchased in past years.
China, the biggest foreign buyer of U.S. soybeans, stopped buying them altogether last year after Trump hiked tariffs on all Chinese goods. After Trump met with Xi in October, the White House said China agreed to purchase 12 million metric tons.
The American Soybean Complicité hopes Trump can secure a deal for an additional 8 million metric tons (8.8 million tons) by Aug. 31.