{"id":79084,"date":"2026-09-23T18:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/trump-greets-xi-jinping-at-plane-as-chinese-leader-arrives-for-state-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:54:44","slug":"trump-greets-xi-jinping-at-plane-as-chinese-leader-arrives-for-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/trump-greets-xi-jinping-at-plane-as-chinese-leader-arrives-for-state-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump greets Xi Jinping at plane as Chinese leader arrives for state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president to give red-carpet treatment to Chinese counterpart despite tensions over AI development<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/sep\/23\/united-nations-general-assembly-unga-zelenksyy-trump-xi-china-ukraine-russia-europe-latest-news-updates#top-of-blog\">Trump greets Xi \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/23\/trump-xi-summit-us-china-ai-trade-taiwan-climate\">AI, trade, Taiwan and climate: what will and won\u2019t be on agenda at Trump-Xi summit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping on Wednesday evening, taking the unusual step of greeting the Chinese leader on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews to kick off his state visit to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s plane was met with a lavish arrival ceremony that included a 100ft long red carpet flanked by US service members, a military flyover by two B-1 bombers and a presentation of the flags and national anthems of both countries. US presidents typically welcome foreign leaders at the White House, but Trump and first lady Melania Trump traveled to the the military base in Maryland, just outside Washington, to personally shake Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan\u2019s hands upon their arrival in the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/23\/trump-xi-jinping-china-us-state-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president to give red-carpet treatment to Chinese counterpart despite tensions over AI development Trump greets Xi \u2013 live updates AI, trade, Taiwan and climate: what will and won\u2019t be on agenda at Trump-Xi summit Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping on Wednesday evening, taking the unusual step of greeting the Chinese leader on the tarmac &#8230; <a title=\"Trump greets Xi Jinping at plane as Chinese leader arrives for state visit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/trump-greets-xi-jinping-at-plane-as-chinese-leader-arrives-for-state-visit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump greets Xi Jinping at plane as Chinese leader arrives for state visit\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79084","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=79084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}