Overview
- Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a three-day state visit to Washington, Sept. 23–25, and President Trump will personally greet Xi at Joint Base Andrews before formal White House events.
- A White House state dinner on Sept. 24 will include top U.S. tech and finance leaders such as Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jamie Dimon and Jane Fraser.
- Artificial intelligence is a central item on the leaders’ agenda, with both countries preparing talks on AI safety, frontier models and access to advanced chips that power large models.
- U.S. officials are discussing limited tariff reductions for a narrow set of nonstrategic goods while publicly ruling out trading away export controls on advanced technology in exchange for greater Chinese rare-earth supplies.
- Senior economic talks are under way in New York between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, and the outcome could shape the Busan trade truce that expires in November.