Nairobi, May 13 -- US President Donald Trump is set to travel to Beijing for a high-stakes meeting with China's President Xi Jinping on May 14-15, 2026.

The summit, which is officially termed as a bilateral diplomatic engagement is also viewed as something closer to an emergency maintenance check on the global system itself. Not because either side expects a historic breakthrough, but because the modern world has become so economically intertwined.

On May 7, 2026, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met a bipartisan delegation of US senators led by Steve Daines in Beijing. The first such congressional visit since President Trump returned to office. Wang spoke optimistically about stabilising relations and implementing understandings reache...