WASHINGTON/BEIJING: The U.S. military campaign against Iran has put Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the back foot ahead of an expected summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, who for the second time in as many months has turned America’s military against one of Beijing’s close partners. Trump is set to arrive in Beijing at the…
In a significant move to stabilise trade relations with Beijing, US President Donald Trump announced that his administration will slash fentanyl-related tariffs on imports from China and maintain the freeze on some reciprocal levies on Chinese goods. The actions, made in a pair of executive orders issued on Tuesday, formalise the key elements of the…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: In what appears to be a tectonic shift in American foreign policy and world order, US President Donald Trump has openly embraced China as a functional equal, heralding a new duopoly that jettisons Washington’s decade-plus view of Beijing as an existential threat, while leaving other powers like EU, Russia, India,…
While US President Donald Trump has maintained a strong stance against India for purchasing Russian oil, he doesn’t seem to have the same problem with China. During his much-talked-about meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, Trump said that the topic of oil did not come up at all. “We didn’t really discuss the…
Topline President Donald Trump said his face-to-face meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was “amazing” and both countries had agreed to certain concessions to ease trade tensions, including a reduction of the fentanyl-related tariffs on China and a pause on Beijing export controls on critical rare earth minerals. US President Donald Trump and China’s President…
After an “amazing meeting” with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in South Korea, US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will cut fentanyl tariffs on China from 20 per cent to 10 per cent. US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met face-to-face in Busan on Thursday for the first time…
Updated on: Oct 30, 2025 11:02 am IST Trump and Xi Jinping met in South Korea’s Busan on Thursday on the sidelines of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju. United States President Donald Trump called his one hour forty minutes-long meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a “great success” and slashed fentanyl tariffs…
Updated on: Oct 30, 2025 07:56 am IST Trump and Xi are meeting in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit of 21 countries in Gyeongju. US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are meeting in South Korea on Thursday, marking their first face-to-face encounter since…
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will discuss a trade framework to reduce U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods in exchange for Beijing’s commitment to curb exports of fentanyl precursor chemicals, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday. Details of the agreement would be hammered out in subsequent negotiations, and the expected…
Published on: Oct 27, 2025 11:01 pm IST Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump have “long-standing exchanges and respect each other”, Wang said. China hopes the United States can meet it halfway to “prepare for high-level interactions” between the two countries, foreign minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio…