US President Donald Trump departed the White House on Tuesday for a high-stakes visit to China, where he is scheduled to hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping amid rising tensions over the US-Israel war on Iran, global oil market concerns and fragile trade ties between the world’s two largest economies.
The three-day visit from May 13 to May 15 is being viewed as a pivotal moment in US-China relations amid escalating geopolitical rivalry, shifting supply chains and rising tensions across the Indo-Pacific.
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