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Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping would visit the US soon, marking the strongest hint of a top top at a time when economic superpower was locked in a deepening war.
Speaking during a visit to Washington’s Center for Performing Arts Kennedy on Monday, Trump He said the Chinese leader “would” come to a not -so -distant future. “
Potential Summit would mark a significant diplomatic description for two geopolitical rivals and could help multinational companies and investors feel how difficult Trump intends to take on to China’s relations.
The White House did not respond to the comment on the comment on whether Washington and Beijing began to talk about the summit. The Chinese Embassy in the United States also did not respond to the commentary request.
Trump has already launched a fresh trade war with Beijing – after the battle in his first term – by imposing a 20 -half -time importer to import from China. Beijing avenged Reducing the tariffs to approximately $ 22 billion in US goods, aimed at the US Agricultural Sector.
China has not issued public remarks about the meeting of two leaders since Trump took the post in January. Trump called on Xi to attend his inauguration, but Beijing sent Vice President Han Zheng to his place.
Trump met XI several times during his first term, including a high visit to Beijing. Their first meeting was at the resort of US President MAR-A-Lazla Florida in 2017, just a few months after Trump assumed his duty.
Christopher Johnson, a former top analyst of CIA China, said a short -term visit would be a “national blow” for Trump. But he said Xi was unlikely to agree unless there was a secret bilateral channel that gave him confidence to risk his visit.
“XI is every instinct too early militant against visits. He concluded that his early visit to MAR-a-Lazla Rasp’s first term was a mistake,” said Johnson, who runs China Strategies Group, Counseling.
Johnson said it was risky because XI did not know the outcome of the trade study related to China, which Trump ordered to be completed by April 1. “It seems that for now it is pleased to let Trump let the tariffs without a clear departure to teach him that China is not Canada, Mexico or Panama,” he said.
The XI is expected to meet a dozen major executives from the US and other countries after Chinese development next week, a high event, where managers can be engaged with top Chinese officials.
Steve Daines, a Republican Senator from Montana, who is close to Trump, will attend the Beijing Forum, in a rare move of an American politician who hopes to lead to a meeting with XI on behalf of the US president. Financial Times last week reported That Daines wanted to be appointed as a presidential envoy to make an encounter with the XI – which senatorial office denied.
