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Trump-Xi meeting likely to happen next year, says U.S. ambassador to China
A highly anticipated meeting between the U.S. and Chinese presidents is more likely to take place next year than this fall, U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said Tuesday. “We’re looking forward to getting together, as President Trump said, and potentially in the near future, but certainly next year,” Perdue said. His comments came during a press conference with a group of U.S. lawmakers on a rare visit to Beijing — the first since 2019. After a call Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media that the two agreed to meet around a multilateral summit in South ... (full story)