United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to talk in person this week, during Trump's first trip to China since 2017.
The two-day trip to Beijing will see the two leaders looking to discuss geopolitical tensions, such as Iran and Taiwan, artificial intelligence, a rare earth minerals deal, and more.
These talks will be the first time the leaders have spoken face-to-face in six months, after a meeting in South Korea last October, which saw a pause to the trade war between the two nations, with the U.S. setting huge, triple-digit tariffs on Chinese goods and China promising to restrict the global supply of critical minerals in response.
Accompanying the U.S. President on this week's trip will be 16 business executives, including Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, Boeing's Kelly Ortberg and Meta's Dina Powell McCormick.
However, noticeably absent ahead of AI talks between the two nations is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, with a source telling Reuters that Juang was not invited.
Ortberg will be looking to leverage the trip for a historic deal between Beijing and Boeing, which has been in talks for some time and could result in China's first major Boeing order in nearly a decade.
The deal could include an order for as many as 500 737 MAX jets, marking the single largest airplane order in history.
