Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Xi Jinping’s upcoming trip to America remains on track, days after the US leader’s claims of Chinese election fraud threatened to upend the truce.“We anticipate that the trip is happening in September,” he told reporters before departing for a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Manila. “They continue to send over their teams to prepare for it. I’ve heard nothing otherwise.”For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.President Donald Trump last week accused the Chinese government of interfering with US elections in 2020 by stealing 220 million voter files — claims American intelligence agencies have previously debunked. When asked on Sunday evening if there would be consequences for Beijing’s alleged actions, he told reporters: “We’re going to see. We’ll be speaking to them.”Trump made the allegations months ahead of a planned visit by the Chinese leader to the US, part of broader efforts to stabilize ties and maintain a trade truce struck last year. That trip is the second of potentially four meetings between the two men this year after Trump’s high-profile visit to Beijing in May.“Head of state diplomacy plays an irreplaceable role in providing strategic guidance to bilateral relations,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters during a regular press conference in Beijing on Monday. “The two sides are in communication regarding interactions between the two heads of state within the year.”Ahead of Xi’s trip, fresh tensions are emerging between the world’s largest economies around visas and artificial intelligence. Trump revived a 90-day restriction on visas for Chinese journalists that he sought at the end of his first term but that former President Joe Biden scrapped before it became law.Xi last week presided over the creation of a new group of nearly 30 countries for setting global AI rules that doesn’t include the US. That came as Chinese AI startup Moonshot announced its new Kimi K3 model, upending conventional wisdom over the US lead on China.The ASEAN summit this week will give Rubio the chance to speak with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ahead of the leaders’ meeting, as well as other regional counterparts from countries including Japan and South Korea.“When you have two big, powerful countries like the United States and China, there are always going to be irritants,” Rubio said. “But I think it’s incumbent on powerful, important countries like ours to continue to talk and have a relationship.”Read more: Trump accuses China of 2020 election interference, contradicting US intel