{"id":77306,"date":"2026-05-13T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/donald-trump-china-sumit-5-key-issues-xi-jinping"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:24:07","slug":"trump-xi-china-summit-five-key-issues-on-the-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77306","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Xi China summit: five key issues on the agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is nearly 10 years since the US president made a state visit to China, and Iran, Taiwan, trade, AI and drugs look set to dominate<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to China this week \u2013 the first by the US president in nearly a decade \u2013 comes amid a time of geopolitical upheaval, a new and intractable conflict in the Middle East, and a sometimes rocky relationship between the world\u2019s two major superpowers.<\/p>\n<p>There is much for Trump and Xi Jinping to discuss, but a few key issues are likely to dominate the agenda.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/donald-trump-china-sumit-5-key-issues-xi-jinping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is nearly 10 years since the US president made a state visit to China, and Iran, Taiwan, trade, AI and drugs look set to dominateDonald Trump\u2019s state visit to China this week \u2013 the first by the US president in nearly a decade \u2013 comes amid a time of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,415,45,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77306\/revisions\/77338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}