Donald Trump calls Xi summit "one of Friendship, Strength, and Success, for both China and the USA"

In late September 2026, Donald Trump welcomed China’s leader Xi Jinping to Washington for a summit covering artificial intelligence, commerce, and the deadlocked conflict in Iran. The ceremony-heavy visit yielded an accord, acknowledged by both governments, establishing a two-way line of contact for problems involving AI. The White House also announced that China would buy no fewer than 10 million metric tons of American coal across 2027 and 2028, that tariffs would be eased on $30 billion of products flowing each way, and that a pair of pandas would go to an American zoo. The two leaders said they would convene again at an APEC meeting in China in November and a G20 event at Trump’s Doral property in Miami in December. Trump spoke positively about the meeting, which aimed to ease strains between the two countries.