{"id":336025,"date":"2026-09-27T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-xi-to-attend-state-dinner-after-white-house-meeting.html"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:33:08","slug":"trump-xi-to-attend-state-dinner-after-white-house-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-xi-to-attend-state-dinner-after-white-house-meeting.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Xi to attend state dinner after White House meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Chinese Leader <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Xi Jinping<\/a> are meeting at the White House on Thursday for high-stakes talks focusing on <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">trade<\/a>, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">artificial intelligence<\/a> and the Iran war \u2014 in between displays of military fanfare and a lavish banquet.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in an arrival ceremony speech that the two countries have been &#8220;working to encourage a more balanced trading relationship,&#8221; and that the leaders plan to discuss &#8220;pressing issues&#8221; around security, technology and AI.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday evening that the countries have agreed to <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">extend their temporary trade truce<\/a>, which lowered U.S. tariffs and suspended Beijing&#8217;s controls on exports of rare earths and critical minerals, among other stipulations. That agreement, which was set to expire in mid-November, will be extended by two months to Jan. 10, Bessent told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades to come,&#8221; Trump said in Thursday&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Xi joined in the bonhomie. &#8220;China and the United States, as two major countries, stand to gain from cooperation and will both lose in confrontation,&#8221; he said in his own remarks, which were translated live. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not need to avoid mentioning competition, but our competition should be a healthy one and should be kept within bounds. It should be a race of catching up with one another, not a wrestle in which one either wins or loses,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Xi also engaged in the Chinese specialty of &#8220;panda diplomacy,&#8221; announcing that two pandas will be coming to Georgia&#8217;s Zoo Atlanta in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>While China analysts broadly predict the leaders&#8217; personal relationship and <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">policy goals<\/a> will result in a cautious summit that yields few major deliverables, their latest face-to-face nevertheless carries real <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">geopolitical risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/24\/trump-xi-meeting-china-washington.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump and Chinese Leader Xi Jinping are meeting at the White House on Thursday for high-stakes talks focusing on trade, artificial intelligence and the Iran war \u2014 in between displays of military fanfare and a lavish banquet. Trump said in an arrival ceremony speech that the two countries have been &#8220;working to encourage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-336025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}