President Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday without a tarmac greeting from Chinese President Xi Jinping — but the apparent snub was actually an “upgrade” from his last welcome in 2017, according to an expert.

The president will get the red carpet treatment, but the deep rift between the U.S. and China will be very hard to repair.

Chinese government appears to be using the workaround of a different character to represent part of the secretary of state’s name, to allow him to visit the country for the upcoming Trump summit

Beijing rolled out both a literal and figurative red carpet for President Donald Trump as he arrived in China on Wednesday evening, May 13, in a carefully choreographed welcome. As Trump disembarked from Air Force One,

Bloomberg’s Stuart Livingstone-Wallace delivered a line worth pausing on this week. Responding to a question about whether a U.S. naval posture was choking off Iranian crude flows, he told viewers: “We’ve had no tankers loading for three days.

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing on May 13, 2026, for a state visit to China. (Photo: Xinhua) US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday evening for a state visit to China,