Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a three-day state visit to the United States beginning Wednesday, with trade, rare-earth supplies, artificial intelligence and other disputes expected to feature in talks with President Donald Trump.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to the United States from Wednesday through Friday for a state visit centered on talks with President Donald Trump, Beijing confirmed Monday, bringing the two leaders together for their second in-person summit in less than six months.
Xi will arrive Sept. 23 at Trump’s invitation, with the White House confirming that Trump plans to personally greet the Chinese leader at Joint Base Andrews. A formal state arrival ceremony, bilateral talks and a state dinner are scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 24.
China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency formally announced the visit, saying Xi and Trump are expected to have “an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning China-U.S. relations and world peace and development.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun described the second presidential meeting in half a year as an important moment for relations between Washington and Beijing.
“Head-of-state diplomacy plays an irreplaceable role in providing strategic guidance to China-U.S. relations,” Guo said during Monday’s Foreign Ministry briefing. “The exchange of visits by the two presidents within the span of half a year will mark a milestone of historic significance.”
“China will work with the United States to enrich the dimensions of the China-U.S. constructive relationship of strategic stability, strengthen dialogue and cooperation, and properly manage differences, so as to deliver greater benefits to our two peoples and further contribute to world peace, stability and prosperity,” he said.
The summit is expected to focus heavily on economic and technological competition. Trade, China’s supply of rare-earth minerals and artificial intelligence are among the subjects expected to be discussed. U.S. and Chinese officials have already been holding preparatory meetings, including talks that produced an agreement to continue a formal dialogue on AI safety.
The meeting comes as Washington and Beijing attempt to preserve the trade truce reached in 2025 while negotiating over tariffs, technology restrictions and access to strategically important materials. The two governments continue to have significant disagreements involving Taiwan, Chinese technology companies, automotive imports and other economic and national security issues.
U.S. governments have also raised longstanding concerns about Chinese intellectual-property practices and transnational repression. State Department reporting has documented concerns involving technology transfer, trade-secret theft and other intellectual-property issues, as well as acts of transnational repression directed at dissidents and members of ethnic and religious minority groups abroad.
The U.S. government has separately determined that China’s treatment of predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang constituted genocide and crimes against humanity, a characterization Beijing has rejected.
Technology will also feature prominently outside the formal negotiating sessions.
The White House state dinner is expected to include prominent American technology executives, with reported guests including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and leaders from Alphabet, Nvidia, OpenAI and Dell.
China is considering bringing its own group of major corporate executives to Washington.
The South China Morning Post has reported that executives connected to Chinese companies including electric-vehicle manufacturer BYD and electronics company Xiaomi could accompany Xi. Reuters separately reported that representatives from BYD, Xiaomi, CATL and other major Chinese businesses were under consideration for the delegation, although the final list had not been completed.
BYD has grown into the world’s largest electric-vehicle manufacturer by sales in some measures and has expanded aggressively outside China. Chinese connected vehicles face U.S. restrictions that effectively prevent manufacturers such as BYD from entering the American passenger-vehicle market under current rules governing Chinese automotive software and technology.
The business component of the visit is expected to accompany broader discussions about AI and other areas of competition, according to Chinese and Hong Kong reporting on the state visit.
Xi’s visit will be his first formal state visit to Washington since 2015. He traveled to California in November 2023 for a meeting with then-President Joe Biden during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, but that encounter was not a state visit.
The upcoming trip is a reciprocal visit following Trump’s May trip to Beijing.
During that meeting, Trump and Xi agreed to pursue what the White House called a “constructive relationship of strategic stability,” and Trump invited Xi to visit Washington during the fall. The White House subsequently said the two sides had reached understandings on several economic and diplomatic issues.
Trump’s May arrival in Beijing was accompanied by an elaborate official welcome before meetings and a state banquet with Xi. White House records show Trump participated in a formal welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People on May 14 and held additional talks with Xi before leaving China May 15.
During the May visit, both presidents publicly emphasized areas where they believed cooperation was possible despite the countries’ strategic competition.
“The people of China and the United States are both great peoples. Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand,” Xi said. “We can help each other succeed and advance the well-being of the whole world.”
This week’s negotiations will occur against a more complicated international backdrop.
Washington has been pressing Beijing over its economic ties with Iran during the continuing Middle East conflict, while China’s close relationship with Russia remains a source of friction with the United States and Ukraine. U.S. officials have also sought Chinese cooperation on sanctions involving Tehran as the Trump administration weighs its next steps in the Iran conflict.
Those geopolitical disputes will accompany economic issues that are more directly tied to the bilateral relationship, including tariffs, artificial intelligence, critical minerals and restrictions on Chinese technology.
Trump’s decision to personally greet Xi upon his arrival is an unusual presidential protocol gesture. Senior U.S. officials said the visit will also include a military review and other ceremonial elements before Thursday’s state dinner.
Xi is not expected to join the world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week. Chinese presidents do not routinely attend the annual gathering in person.
Trump, meanwhile, is scheduled to address the General Assembly on Tuesday before returning to Washington for Xi’s arrival Wednesday.
The visit will therefore shift much of the week’s diplomatic attention from New York to Washington, where the leaders of the world’s two largest economies will spend Thursday addressing a relationship defined simultaneously by extensive trade and deep competition over technology, national security and geopolitical influence.
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