{"id":73438,"date":"2026-05-13T00:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/trump-due-in-china-for-high-stakes-summit-with-xi-jinping-as-iran-war-looms-over-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:12:41","slug":"trump-due-in-china-for-high-stakes-summit-with-xi-jinping-as-iran-war-looms-over-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/trump-due-in-china-for-high-stakes-summit-with-xi-jinping-as-iran-war-looms-over-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump due in China for high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping, as Iran war looms over talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president will arrive with tech leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook, with trade, AI and Taiwan all set to be discussed<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is due to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday evening, the first visit to China by a US president in nearly a decade, as he seeks to mend power and prestige weakened by the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/12\/trump-china-ai-big-tech-xi-jinping\">will bring tech leaders, including Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0of Tesla and Tim Cook of Apple, and plans for headline-grabbing deals. He has said he expects China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, would \u201cgive me a big, fat hug when I get there\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/trump-china-summit-xi-jinping-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president will arrive with tech leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook, with trade, AI and Taiwan all set to be discussed Donald Trump is due to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday evening, the first visit to China by a US president in nearly a decade, as he seeks to mend power and &#8230; <a title=\"Trump due in China for high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping, as Iran war looms over talks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/trump-due-in-china-for-high-stakes-summit-with-xi-jinping-as-iran-war-looms-over-talks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump due in China for high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping, as Iran war looms over talks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}