Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the APEC summit in Gyeongju. This follows Xi's trade war truce with US President Trump and talks with Canadian and Japanese leaders.

Leaders of Pacific countries and territories, including China’s Xi Jinping, are gathering in South Korea for a major summit Friday. But the leader of one global powerhouse is conspicuously absent: Donald Trump.

Chinese president Xi Jinping and Canadian PM Mark Carney, in the first formal sit-down since 2017, discussed about agriculture and agri-food products, including canola, seafood

China will look to ramp up its military targeting of Taiwan in the next two years, a security expert has warned, as  Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are urged to address the possibility of war in their upcoming summits.

President Donald Trump described his face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday as a roaring success, saying he would cut tariffs on China, while Beijing had agreed to allow the export of rare earth elements and start buying American soybeans.

Europe is now caught in the crossfire of the U.S.–China trade war — and paying the price. As Beijing tightens control over rare earth exports and advanced chip supplies, the EU’s dependency has been laid bare.

Trump, 79, was overheard claiming during a diplomatic dinner hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung that the Thursday meeting with Xi would stretch “three to four hours” — despite official guidance from the White House budgeting a little under two hours for the summit.

The president said he would cut tariffs on China, while Beijing had agreed to allow the export of rare earth elements and start buying American soybeans.

The core goal of the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping was clear enough: bring the temperature down and strike some agreements that would stabilise one of the world’s most important bilateral relationships.

A critic of the returning Lord Macartney delegation from Britain to China in 1793 aptly noted that they had been treated with ceremony, entertained royally, and flattered in excess by Qianlong Emperor—and yet returned empty handed. This must rank as one of the earliest examples of the travails of seeking to do business with China.

President Donald Trump said he had an “amazing” meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where “a lot of decisions were made” on fentanyl, rare earth minerals and more.