Trump and Xi meet at White House during state visit
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met at the White House on September 24 during Xi’s three-day U.S. state visit, after a high-profile military welcome. They publicly called for cooperation but discussed contentious issues including Taiwan, trade, artificial intelligence and Iran; accounts differed over how much progress the talks produced.
Countries involved United States · 3 outletsChina · 4 outletsIran · 0 of our 2 outletsTaiwan · 1 outletRussia · 2 outlets
First reported among our outlets by Yonhap News Agency (South Korea), · most coverage from China (4), United States (3), Ukraine (3), South Korea (3)
What the parties said
United States
“Decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades to come,”
Also reported by 5 other outlets
"President Xi and I both understand that we represent different systems, but the ties between our people endure,"
Also reported by 5 other outlets
his guest is a brutal, unelected and oppressive dictator who seeks to dominate his neighbors and whose massive military arsenal is aimed directly at the United States of America.
Also reported by 3 other outlets
China
In a few days, two pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, will come to their new home in Zoo Atlanta and meet with the American people.
Also reported by 10 other outlets
China and the US should be partners, not rivals.
Also reported by 9 other outlets
Xi and Trump will have an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning China-US relations and world peace and development, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo…
Also reported by 2 other outlets
Taiwan
Wang Hsin-hsien (王信賢), a distinguished professor at National Chengchi University's Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, said Trump is seeking tangible outcomes to boost…
Xi, meanwhile, aims to show that China's foreign policy and domestic governance remain stable ahead of the Chinese Communist Party's 21st National Congress next year, he said.
However, Wang Hung-jen said China recognizes that it is unlikely to persuade the United States to halt arms sales to Taiwan altogether.
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Relays Melania Trump's explanation for the greeting
they have a great relationship.
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Emphasizes people-to-people exchanges
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Head-of-state diplomacy serves as a central anchor of China's diplomacy, steering its most important diplomatic relationships
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Focus Taiwan (CNA) · Taiwan22 Sep 09:29Xi expected to raise Taiwan during Trump-Xi summit: U.S. scholars
Centers Taiwan arms sales and friction
Xi Jinping would say that arms sales to Taiwan would undermine that understanding and inject greater friction into the relationship,
RIA Novosti · Russia24 Sep 14:42Trump said that he and Xi Jinping have friendly relations
Translated from: Трамп заявил, что его и Си Цзиньпина связывают дружеские отношения
Highlights Trump's account of a personal friendship
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Relays Xinhua
States Beijing's position on Taiwan
Official Beijing considers Taiwan to be one of the provinces of the PRC.
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Translated from: 習近平氏が米国到着、トランプ氏自ら出迎える異例の厚遇 歓迎式典も
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Translated from: 트럼프는 레드카펫·시진핑은 국빈 관철…"성과보다 쇼 집중"
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Translated from: Quels sont les enjeux de la visite du président chinois Xi Jinping à Washington ce jeudi ?
Lists issues unlikely to yield breakthroughs
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Focuses on extending a tension-reducing understanding
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Translated from: A l’arrivée de Xi Jinping aux Etats-Unis, Washington annonce prolonger la trêve commerciale avec Pékin
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Translated from: USA und China verlängern Waffenstillstand im Zollkrieg bei Staatsbesuch
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Translated from: Alfombra roja, flores y Trump: así ha sido la llegada de Xi Jinping a Washington
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Includes Ukraine in the summit agenda
"Both heads of state also exchanged views on major international and regional issues including the Middle East situation, Ukraine crisis, and Korean Peninsula,"
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Relays The Washington Post
Includes Ukraine and other global conflicts
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Relays CBS News, Ukrinform
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Translated from: Reunión clave en Estados Unidos: Donald Trump recibe a Xi Jinping en la pista del aeropuerto de la Base Andrews
Relays ANSA, AP
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Translated from: Brasil no Mundo desta quinta debate multilateralismo e desafios da ONU
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Relays Xinhua
Highlights Xi's call for dialogue and trust
through candid, in-depth and continued dialogue, our two countries can understand each other better, seek common ground while shelving differences, and build up mutual trust.
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Relays Associated Press
Lists Iran-linked China report and press-access story
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Translated from: ماذا قالت صور لقاء ترمب وشي؟.. لغة الجسد ترسم المشهد
Details the planned military reception
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Translated from: ABD'de görkemli karşılama! Trump'tan gövde gösterisi
Notes trade and technology disputes persist
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Examines Trump's incentives in the AI race
Trump doesn't want to pour more cold water on this kind of AI-driven financial … boom,
NDTV · India24 Sep 05:28What Trump Wants From Xi Jinping After Giving Him A King's Welcome
Reports an analyst's view of U.S. decline
"I think when Xi Jinping sits down with Donald Trump, he very much believes the US is in hurtling decline, and that time is on China's side."
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Frames China as more confident and equal
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Translated from: امریکا چین ممکنہ معاہدہ بھارت کیلئے دردِسر بن گیا
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Accounts conflict
How long the White House meeting lasted
Clarín said the meeting lasted more than three hours, and The Kyiv Independent described a three-hour private meeting.
The war in Ukraine was one of several topics that Trump and Xi discussed during their three-hour private meeting, along with trade, AI, the U.S. war in Iran, and Taiwan.
Yonhap, citing the Associated Press, put the meeting at about 90 minutes.
Different readings
How much progress the meeting represented
Trump called the meeting a major step forward, and Xi said the visit produced common understanding on many issues.
He said common understanding on many issues have been reached during his visit this time, adding new substance to the constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability,…
The BBC reported little confirmed progress on key issues, and experts cited by the BBC said the talks had produced few concrete results so far.
There was pomp and ceremony, but little in the way of confirmed progress on key issues.
But experts say that not much concrete has been yielded in talks so far.
Different readings
What the trade outcome amounted to
Xi described the result as a new trade arrangement.
the United States and China reached a new trade arrangement
Bessent described the agreement as a two-month extension of the existing trade truce, while Yonhap assessed that no major agreement had been reached.
Washington and Beijing agreed to extend their trade truce by two months until Jan. 10.
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Whether a further Xi-Trump meeting at the November APEC summit was definite
RIA Novosti and El País described a meeting at the APEC summit as planned.
Clarín said the leaders may meet there.
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