US President Donald Trump has landed in Beijing for his highly anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with the Iran war, trade, Taiwan and artificial intelligence the key talking points of their high-stakes meeting.
Trump was greeted by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng and other dignitaries as he stepped off Air Force One and onto a red carpet at the city’s Capital International Airport on Wednesday evening for the two-day summit.
He was welcomed by a military honour guard, a military band, and hundreds of Chinese youth waving US and Chinese flags.
Trump’s state visit to China – the first by a US president in almost a decade – comes saddled with the baggage of the Iran war, which has triggered a global energy crisis, and injected fresh tensions into the summit due to Beijing’s close diplomatic ties with Tehran as the largest buyer of its oil.
Both Trump and Xi will be seeking to stabilise their fragile trade truce secured in South Korea in October when their formal talks begin this morning at the Great Hall of the People.
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