President Donald Trump is heading to China this week with a smaller-than-expected group of U.S. corporate executives, hoping to turn a tense summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping into a show of economic strength, trade progress, and diplomatic control at a moment when Beijing may have more leverage than Washington wants to admit.
Trump is scheduled to visit Beijing from May 14 to 15 for high-level talks with Xi, the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly nine years and Trump's first trip there since his 2017 state visit. The summit is expected to focus on trade, rare earth minerals, artificial intelligence, Taiwan, Iran, nuclear weapons, and China's ties to Russia.
