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"I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post at 2:17 a.m. Wednesday.
Xi Jinping has refused to back down in China’s tariff confrontation with President Trump. But he’ll have to persuade his people that the pain is worth it.
Something is “very, very wrong” in Beijing right now, according to foreign policy expert Gordon Chang, who is signaling more “end-of-regime conduct” coming out of Xi Jinping’s China.
Trump’s trade actions could not have come at a worse time for Xi. As an initial matter, his economy is stumbling. It cannot be growing at the 5.4% pace reported Wednesday for the first quarter ...
China’s leader Xi Jinping said no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia on Monday, hitting out at President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs moves. Although ...
China’s leader Xi Jinping has released a letter denouncing tariff and trade wars and urging the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperati… ...
President Donald Trump with President Xi Jinping of China at the G20 Summit in Japan in 2019. “He’s been a friend of mine for a long period of time,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Xi last week.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement Thursday deepening their “strategic partnership” — a day after the Chinese autocrat took a swipe at the ...
China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing, March 28, 2025 and President Donald Trump, in Washington, April 7, 2025. Getty Images/Reuters. Xi Jinping is playing hardball.