1. No bending the knee for Iran Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, balanced defiance against the US with an openness to dialogue, in an address that had been in doubt as it was unclear he would be issued a visa to enter the country. “We have only defended ourselves. We are not terrorists,” he said. “Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed upon our country.” Referring to the United States, Pezeshkian added: “Yes, they did hit us, but we did not bend the knee.” The…
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Xi Jinping meets Trump: who holds the cards? – podcast
You know when world leaders ring each other up for a chat? It’s never just them on the line. Eavesdropping silently on another extension, just out of sight, there is always someone like Jon Czin listening in. Czin was the director for China on Joe Biden’s national security council from 2021 to 2023, having honed his expertise as the CIA’s in-house expert on Xi Jinping. He dealt with a lot during his two years working for the White House, but as Donald Trump prepares to welcome Xi Jinping to Washington…
Trump greets Xi Jinping at plane as Chinese leader arrives for state visit
Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping on Wednesday evening, taking the unusual step of greeting the Chinese leader on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews to kick off his state visit to Washington. Xi’s plane was met with a lavish arrival ceremony that included a 100ft long red carpet flanked by US service members, a military flyover by two B-1 bombers and a presentation of the flags and national anthems of both countries. US presidents typically welcome foreign leaders at the White House, but Trump and first lady Melania Trump traveled…
Photos: China’s Xi Jinping receives rare welcome as Trump summit begins
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington on Wednesday for a three-day visit. Trump and U.S. first lady Melania Trump greeted Xi and Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan on a 100-foot-long red carpet rolled out on the tarmac beside Xi’s plane at the Maryland military base that hosts Air Force One. A military band played, and cannons blasted ceremonial fire as they greeted each other. Trump winced as a loud B-1 military bomber flew overhead. The leaders then went their separate ways,…
Trump greets Xi Jinping at airport in rare personal welcome ahead of high stakes US-China summit – live
From 50m ago Trump greets Xi at airport in rare personal welcome to US Xi Jinping has arrived in Washington and been greeted by Donald Trump at the airport instead of waiting for him to drive to the White House. The decision to greet the Chinese leader there has been reported as showing how far Trump is going to honour China’s leader as he makes his first state visit to the US capital in more than a decade. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greeted Xi and his wife Peng…
As Xi lands in Washington, Uyghurs and Tibetans press Trump for human rights showdown
Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday arrived in Washington as diasporic minority communities urged U.S. President Donald Trump to press him on human rights and religious freedom during their three-day summit. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump met Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. After their brief greeting, which included a military honor guard, the two leaders parted ways to make last minute preparations for a full slate of events scheduled for Thursday. Experts expect that Trump will try to work…
Trump to meet China’s Xi as Congress mulls bill banning artificial superintelligence – US politics live
From 1h ago Trump to meet with China’s Xi as Congress mulls bill banning artificial superintelligence Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump will meet with the Chinese president Xi Jinping later today, ahead of a three-day visit that will undoubtedly see artificial intelligence (AI) high on the agenda. António Guterres, the UN secretary general, has called on the two countries to establish a dialogue on AI similar to the communication between the US and the Soviet Union during the cold war. “Governments with the greatest…
AI, trade, Taiwan and climate: what will and won’t be on agenda at Trump-Xi summit
The leaders of the world’s two superpowers are meeting in the US this week. It is Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the US in more than a decade. The last time the Chinese president was hosted in Washington (by Barack Obama in 2015), the issues on the agenda included cybercrime, technology, the climate crisis and human rights. The star of the day was Ne-Yo, who serenaded Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, with Peng reportedly singing along at the state dinner. This time, Xi is meeting Donald Trump, who…
Europe frets about Trump. But soon he could be the least of our problems | Mujtaba Rahman
I addressed a group of more than 100 European ambassadors recently on the big challenges facing the continent this year and next. My main point to these senior diplomats was that, perhaps counterintuitively, Europe’s biggest external challenges over the next 12 months will come from Russia and China, rather than the US. Europe’s relationship with Trump’s America remains difficult. The US president has weakened confidence in Nato, raised new transatlantic trade tensions and introduced uncertainty into everything from US support for Ukraine to his territorial designs on Greenland. Yet paradoxically,…
AI looms large over Trump-Xi meeting amid deep distrust between US and China
When Xi Jinping, China’s leader, touches down in Maryland on Wednesday, he will step out into the arms – perhaps a hug, if Donald Trump’s wishes come true – of a US president who has shown China more bonhomie than any of his recent predecessors. The meeting between Xi and Trump this week will be the second time that the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies have talked face to face this year. At the previous summit, held in Beijing in May, there was much talk of building a…