Beijing — Donald Trump is scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday for a two-day state visit, the first by a sitting US president in eight years. The trip comes at a moment when the relationship between the world’s two largest economies could charitably be described as “complicated.”
The agenda reads like a geopolitical greatest hits album: the war in Iran, Taiwan’s status, artificial intelligence rivalry, and trade friction that has been simmering for the better part of a decade. Pre-summit talks in Seoul on May 12-13 set the stage, but the main event is Beijing, and markets are already reacting.