President Donald Trump is kicking off the busiest portion of his three-day visit to China. It's a trip that may end up focusing more on pageantry and symbolism than major bilateral breakthroughs.

Though U.S. President Donald Trump said he and Chinese President Xi Jinping “discussed almost everything,” their Beijing summit produced no sweeping agreements.

Donald Trump got the pageantry he craved during his trip to China. But the US president concluded the summit largely where he began, receiving little help from his “friend” Xi Jinping in dealing with a messy war in Iran and a challenging political climate at home.

President Donald Trump’s three-day trip to China was unexpectedly dominated by discussions about Taiwan and a new framework for managing Washington and Beijing's complicated relationship.

The two-day meeting wrapped up Friday, setting the tone for further U.S.-China talks this year.

Meeting in China for the first time since 2017 Donald Trump and Xi Jinping committed to stabilising relations and suggested that they had reached new agreements on trade and other areas. Over two days of talks in Beijing,

US President Donald Trump’s visit to China this week may have been short on immediate deals addressing frictions over tech and trade. But there’s little question that Chinese leader Xi Jinping will be viewing it as a resounding success.

At Beijing's Great Hall of the People, after high-level talks with Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed the US-China relationship as the world's most consequential during a state banquet for US President Donald Trump,