U.S. President Donald Trump will pay an official visit to China from May 13 to 15 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Monday (May 11, 2026).
This will be the first visit to China by a U.S. president in almost nine years.
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The visit comes in the midst of a prolonged U.S.-Israel-Iran war, a crisis over the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz causing a global energy crisis and the increasing tensions between the two countries over a host of issues, including Taiwan.
On Sunday (May 10, 2026), U.S. principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said Mr. Trump would arrive in Beijing on Wednesday (May 13, 2026) evening for what she described as a “visit of tremendous symbolic significance”.
