Chinese Authorities Announce Xi Jinping's State Visit to the United States, Dismissing Rumors of Health Problems

[Financial News] The Chinese government officially announced that Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25.
Although U.S. President Donald Trump had previously said he would visit Washington on the 24th local time, the Chinese government had not issued an official position on Xi's visit to the United States.
As a result, rumors about Xi Jinping's health that had circulated online in recent days were confirmed to be untrue.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China officially announced in a spokesperson's statement on the 21st, "At the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump, President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25."
Xi is scheduled to hold a summit with President Trump at the White House on the 24th. It will be just four months after their summit in Beijing last May.
Separately, the Communist Party of China (CPC) also reported that it had decided Xi Jinping would chair the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party in his capacity as general secretary and that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, or the Fifth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee, would be held in Beijing from October 26 to 29.   
Earlier, a Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier He Lifeng met a U.S. delegation led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in New York that day for high-level working talks aimed at narrowing differences between the two countries before the summit. The sides coordinated on key issues. 
The two sides appear to have coordinated an overall framework for an agreement during the talks and then finalized the schedule for Xi's visit.
The working-level talks covered competition in artificial intelligence (AI), controls on rare-earth exports, and extending the truce in the trade war. The two sides discussed establishing an AI communication channel and also agreed to officially launch a trade committee. 
The Financial Times (FT) reported that the two sides discussed the need to extend the U.S.-China trade truce, which is set to expire in November, but appeared unable to reach a final agreement because they differed over the length of the extension.
The leaders of the two countries had agreed, on the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, to temporarily suspend retaliatory measures such as high tariffs and export controls for one year.
Meanwhile, Xi's visit to Washington, D.C., will be his first since 2016. Xi met then-President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. in San Francisco in 2023 and met President Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Resort in Florida in 2017.  Xi is scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C., on the 23rd.





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