Mr. Trump is expected to address the summit Wednesday morning, local time, and meet with Xi a day later. He's also expected to meet at some point with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, as the microchip giant partners with the Department of Energy to build an artificial intelligence supercomputer and presses for more access to China's market.

The US president is attending an economic summit on an Asia tour that includes a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are poised to hold a high-stakes summit in South Korea on Thursday, as the world’s two largest economies struggle to resolve a protracted trade conflict that has upended global economy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to press the U.S. to shift its policy on Taiwan when he meets this week with President Donald Trump, who is pushing for a trade deal.

President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit amid ongoing trade negotiations and tensions over rare-earth export controls.

That the meeting is happening at all is testament to the weekend work of Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary, and He Lifeng, China’s vice-premier, in Malaysia. There will be three levels of difficulty in the negotiations.

If Beijing takes action to cut the export of chemicals that make fentanyl, the U.S. would cut in half the 20% fentanyl-related levies on Chinese goods.

The two leaders are set to meet for their first meeting of Trump's second term. Officials are optimistic on a "framework" for a climbdown in trade tensions. Expect TikTok and Taiwan to also feature in the talk.

Follow live updates as President Donald Trump continues his three-country Asia tour with a final stop in South Korea, where he'll meet with China's Xi Jinping.

Mr Xi is firmly in charge, and unabashed about showing the party and the world that he will dump anyone deemed to be a bad actor. It was unclear what, exactly, the purged officials had done to deserve their punishment.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Nvidia's state-of-the-art Blackwell artificial intelligence chip at their expected meeting on Thursday.