US President Donald Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday for a second day of talks, concluding his state visit to China that has so far resulted in a Chinese offer to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but also a warning from Beijing that mishandling Taiwan could spark conflict.
On Friday, Trump visited the Zhongnanhai leadership compound next to Beijing's Forbidden City, where he will have tea and lunch with Xi before travelling back to Washington.
"Hopefully our relationship with China will be stronger and better than ever before," Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that Xi had congratulated him "on so many tremendous successes in such a short period of time".
The talks have yet to deliver any major economic breakthroughs, with Trump primarily focused on securing deals in the agriculture, aviation and artificial intelligence sectors.
The summit, so far, has mainly been aimed at stabilising the relationship between the US and China and maintaining a fragile truce agreed on at the end of last year.
