Sri Lanka, May 11 -- Beijing has confirmed that US President Donald Trump will travel to China this week to meet Xi Jinping.

The visit, from 13-15 May, will be the first to China by a US president in nearly a decade - and comes at a pivotal moment for ties between the world's two largest economies.

Executives from some of America's biggest companies - including Boeing, Citigroup and Qualcomm - are expected to travel with Trump, potentially to make deals with Chinese firms. It will also mark a key test in the fragile trade truce between Washington and Beijing.

In April 2025, Trump unveiled sweeping import taxes on countries across the world, friend or foe.

A major effect of that policy was a tit-for-tat trade war between the US and Chi...