Switch the White House newsletter on free of charge
Your guide to what the US election 2024 means for Washington and the world
Donald Trump said China’s President Xi Jinping would soon visit the United States and mark the strongest indication of a summit at a time when the economic superpowers are locked up in a visible trade war.
Talk during a visit to Washington Kennedy Performing Arts Center on Monday, Trump card said that the Chinese leader “would come in the not too distant future”.
The potential summit would mark a significant diplomatic value for the two geopolitical competitors and contribute to offering multinational companies and investors a feeling of how difficult an attitude that Trump intends to adopt the relationships with China.
The White House did not respond to inquiries about comments about whether Washington and Beijing had started to have discussions about a summit. The Chinese embassy in the USA also did not respond to a request for comments.
Trump has already started a new trade war with Beijing after the fight in his first term by imposing a 20 percent tariff on imports from China. Beijing reorganized By taking tariffs to approximately $ 22 billion in US goods that aim at the American agricultural sector.
China has not published any public comments on a meeting between the two guides since taking office in January. Trump invited Xi to take part in his inauguration, but Beijing sent Vice President Han Zheng in his place.
Trump scored XI several times in his first term, including a top -class visit to Beijing. Her first meeting took place in the Mar-A-Lago resort of the US President in Florida in 2017, just a few months after Trump’s taking office.
Christopher Johnson, a former analyst with Top Cia China, said that a short -term visit was “a coup” for Trump. But he said that XI was unlikely that there was a secret bilateral channel that gave him the confidence in risking a visit.
“Xis Every instinct militates too early against a visit. He made his early visit to Mar-A-Lago in Trump’s first term of office, ”said Johnson, who heads the China Strategies Group.
Johnson said it was risky because XI does not know the result of the trade study related to China that Trump should be completed by April 1. “He seems to be satisfied for the time being to increase the tariffs without a clear ramp to teach him that China is not Canada, Mexico or Panama,” he said.
Xi is expected to meet dozens of managing directors from the USA and other countries according to the China Development Forum, a top -class event in which managers can get in touch with the best Chinese officials.
Steve Daines, a Republican senator of Montana, who is close to Trump, will visit the Beijing Forum in a rare step of a US politician, which he hopes to lead to a meeting with XI in the name of the American president. The Financial Times last week reported That Daines wanted to be shown as a presidential officer to make it easier to meet with XI – which the senator’s office contained.
