Trump and Chinese President Xi will meet in the first week of April, according to Politico.
The pair spoke last week and that may have helped to finalize the agenda for the meeting.
They previously held a high-profile bilateral meeting on October 30, 2025, in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit. The meeting lasted approximately 100 minutes and was viewed as a significant effort to stabilize a relationship that had become increasingly strained during the first year of Trump’s second term.
Since then, the US has refrained from further tariffs but the policy around semi-conductor exports has been inconsistent.
In October, the leaders reached a one-year agreement to pause further escalations in their trade war. This included a temporary suspension of certain US export controls and China’s most severe rare earth export restrictions. China agreed to agriculture purchases and so far the US has indicated those are on track, though some private sources dispute that.
The meeting will take place in China and Trump has described this upcoming trip as a “business trip” aimed at securing further trade wins.
In Trump’s first term, the pair held four bi-lateral meetings.
In April 2017, the leaders met at Mar-a-Lago for an informal icebreaker. The summit focused on establishing a personal rapport, famously featuring a performance by Trump’s grandchildren. While light on policy, they agreed to a 100-day plan to address trade imbalances and created new dialogue channels to manage the relationship.
Trump traveled to Beijing in November 2017 for a “state visit plus,” highlighted by a rare private dinner in the Forbidden City. The trip was a spectacle of pageantry that resulted in $250 billion in announced trade deals. However, most were non-binding, and the visit did little to slow the approaching trade war.
By December 2018, the leaders met at the G20 in Buenos Aires to negotiate a way out of escalating tariffs. They reached a 90-day ceasefire, with the U.S. delaying a planned tariff hike while China agreed to buy more agricultural products. Xi also made a humanitarian commitment to regulate fentanyl more strictly.
The final meeting of the term occurred at the June 2019 G20 in Osaka. Following a collapse in trade talks, they agreed to another truce to restart negotiations. Trump offered to ease restrictions on Huawei and hold off on new tariffs, while Xi committed to massive farm purchases. This momentum eventually stalled with the 2020 pandemic.
This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.