This Monday, the Chinese government confirmed the president Xi Jinping’s trip to the United States this week, at the same time as China’s objective during this new summit with his counterpart Donald Trump: greater stability in bilateral relations and in international affairs.
Mr. Xi will undertake a state visit to the United States from Wednesday to Friday, at the invitation of Mr. Trump, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement.
This trip, agreed for months, had been treated as a foregone conclusion on the American side, but had not been confirmed on the Chinese side, following a common official practice.
It is the second summit between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economic powers this year, after Mr. Trump’s visit to Beijing in May, and the third face-to-face meeting since Mr. Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025.
The talks will bring together the leaders of two countries, engaged in a fierce competition with global repercussions and opposed on a multitude of topics: trade and tariffs, artificial intelligence, wars with Iran and in Ukraine, Taiwan…
Mr. Xi and Mr. Trump will have “an in-depth exchange of views on the major issues affecting Sino-American relations as well as peace and development in the world,” said Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry, at a regular press briefing.
“China is ready to work with the United States to enrich the content of the constructive relationship of strategic stability between the two countries, strengthen dialogue and cooperation, properly manage differences, continually improve the well-being of both peoples, and promote peace, stability and global prosperity,” he added.
These remarks corroborate China’s pursuit of stability in its relations with the United States, in a context of international turbulence and bilateral tensions.
Beijing had reported in May that Xi and Trump had agreed during their meeting on the “vision of a constructive and stable bilateral relationship.”
It was, according to Beijing, about strengthening bilateral cooperation, managing differences, and injecting more certainty into international affairs.
