If Beijing takes action to cut the export of chemicals that make fentanyl, the U.S. would cut in half the 20% fentanyl-related levies on Chinese goods.

As the international landscape becomes increasingly challenging and complex, China must move faster to create a new development pattern, says the Chinese president.

I T IS THE start of the most important week of diplomacy for Donald Trump since he returned to office. A meeting between the American president and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, is planned for October 30th and comes after Mr Trump’s whistlestop tour of many of his country’s most important Asian allies.

China’s leader wants to weaken American support for Taiwan. But first he will want clarity about President Trump’s stance toward the island.

US and Chinese officials have reached a framework agreement, averting a potentially ruinous 157% tariff on Chinese goods while paving the way for a potential trade deal to be discussed between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this week.

President Trump met with the emir and prime minister of Qatar Saturday aboard Air Force One during a refueling stop.

The United States and China are not going to resolve all the issues that divide them before presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet Thursday in Busan, South Korea

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said he plans to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this week when both leaders are at a summit in South Korea, aiming to firm-up relations with the world’s second biggest economy while long-standing ties with the US fray.

Leavitt said that on Monday morning local time, Trump will fly to Tokyo followed by a bilateral meeting with Sanae Takaichi, the new prime minister of Japan. Trump will then fly to Buscan, where he will participate in a bilateral meeting with Lee Jae Myung, the president of South Korea, Leavitt said.

Mr Xi is firmly in charge, and unabashed about showing the party and the world that he will dump anyone deemed to be a bad actor. It was unclear what, exactly, the purged officials had done to deserve their punishment.

After President Xi Jinping ousted a group of top generals whose careers overlapped for decades, state media accused them of “severely undermining” the Communist Party’s highest echelons of authority.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says "walking away from Taiwan" is not on the agenda for this week's talks in South Korea between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Newsweek reached out to the White House and to the Chinese Foreign Ministry via email for comment outside of regular office hours.