Donald Trump to meet Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing

Soon after Air Force One landed today in Beijing, President Trump walked down a red carpet onto the tarmac, where he was welcomed by a military band, an honor guard, hundreds of people waving Chinese and American flags and China’s vice president.

It's Trump's first visit to China since 2017, when he traveled there during his first term.

US President Donald Trump is set to hold crucial talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, with trade tensions, Taiwan and the Iran war expected to dominate discussions between the world’s two largest economies.

The two leaders last met in person in Busan, South Korea, on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, where they reached a one-year trade truce aimed at lowering existing tariffs and suspending further trade restrictions, such as China's curbs on rare earth elements.