Trump has announced new dates for his visit to Beijing, while the Chinese leader prepares for a reciprocal trip to the USA <\/p>\n
The visit of US President Donald Trump to China has been postponed to mid-May due to the war with Iran. However, Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Washington for a reciprocal trip later this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
As reported by RBC-Ukraine, this was stated by White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt during a briefing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Also read:<\/strong> Trump and Xi Jinping summit postponed: Politico reveals the reason<\/p>\n New summit dates<\/p>\n The US president’s trip to Beijing, which was originally scheduled for earlier, is now set for May 14 and 15.<\/p>\n The postponement of the meeting with Xi Jinping was initiated by the American leader himself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As noted by White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, the reason for the change in plans was the tense situation in the Middle East.<\/p>\n “Last week, Trump announced that he had asked China to postpone the summit, citing the war with Iran,” the statement said.<\/p>\n In addition to Trump’s trip to China, the parties agreed on a visit by a Chinese delegation to the USA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Levitt confirmed that Xi Jinping, along with his wife, will visit Washington later this year, although the specific date for the reciprocal visit has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Trump and Xi Jinping summit has been postponed<\/p>\n Recall that the meeting of the US and Chinese leaders has been postponed several times. Initially, it was planned that Donald Trump would visit Beijing in the first week of April, and the main topic of the negotiations would be global security.<\/p>\n Subsequently, information emerged that the conflict in the Middle East could pose a barrier to the meeting. Trump stated that he was ready to postpone the visit, putting forward certain demands to Beijing amid rising tensions in the region.<\/p>\n Later, it became known that the US administration would not set a new date for the summit until the active phase of the war with Iran was over.<\/p>\n Although the White House officially denied a direct link between the date of the trip and military actions, sources from Politico confirmed that the Iranian issue was indeed the key reason for the delay.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump announced new dates for his visit to Beijing, while the Chinese leader prepares a reciprocal trip to the USA. The visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to China has been postponed to mid-May due to the war with Iran. However, Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Washington for a reciprocal visit later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"magazine_newspaper_sidebar_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-en"],"yoast_head":"\n