For a summit low on expectations but high on optics, Xi delivered a carefully crafted spectacle designed to project China’s status as the foremost peer to the US.

Beijing is arguably the most powerful competitor the US has confronted in its history, one analyst says.

With his approval ratings dented by his entanglement in the Middle East, the US President's hotly anticipated trip to China has taken on added significance.

The world’s two most powerful men – US president Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping – struck a cordial tone, but will the goodwill deliver the win they are both chasing?

A 490-year-old tree was among the sights that Xi showed Trump as they toured Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party HQ that foreigners are rarely allowed to visit.

After talks on trade, Taiwan and Iran, Chinese President Xi Jinping showed off the centuriesold trees in Beijing’s walledoff Zhongnanhai compound, where he strolled with

Centuries-old trees dominated the conversation in Beijing’s former imperial garden Zhongnanhai, where Trump and Xi strolled in the concluding hours of summit | World News

The leaders of the two most powerful countries in the world have spent the past two days at their cordial best, with the Trump administration confident the visit will pay…

US President Donald Trump spent his final morning in Beijing in Zhongnanhai — the highly secretive, tightly guarded leadership compound of China’s ruling Communist Party.

Nearly every force shaping the two countries' relationship is pulling them apart.

For a summit low on expectations but high on optics, Xi delivered a carefully crafted spectacle designed to project China’s status as the foremost peer to the US.

Donald Trump appeared to be pleased to join the limited number of world leaders who have been invited into a secretive imperial garden in China. Xi Jinping granted the US…

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The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, gave the US president, Donald Trump, a tour of Beijing’s walled-off Zhongnanhai compound in the concluding hours of their summit on Friday

Before Donald Trump departed China, Xi Jinping charmed him one last time, walking him through the walled-off imperial garden of his opulent palace.

Fundamentals of the US-China relationship remain the same after US president’s visit

As Trump wrapped up his China visit on Friday, the Xi Jinping took him for a tour of his 1500-acre compound | World News

While Xi was eager to lavish the US leader in 2017, he is now willing to put his foot down on matters like Taiwan