Overview
- Xi Jinping landed at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 23 and was greeted by President Trump with full ceremonial honors including a red carpet, national anthems, artillery salute and military flyover.
- Trump and Xi held closed‑door talks at the White House that covered the Russian war in Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula without releasing detailed joint statements.
- Xi publicly urged that the two countries be partners rather than adversaries and said competition should be a healthy race, not a clash.
- Both leaders announced plans to meet again at the APEC leaders’ gathering in Shenzhen in November and at the G20 summit in Miami in December.
- The U.S. has proposed preparing a trilateral technical meeting on Ukraine in the United Arab Emirates, a developing initiative that Kyiv is coordinating with European partners and that still awaits Russian agreement.