U.S. President Donald Trump will welcome Xi Jinping in Washington this week for talks on trade, artificial intelligence and Taiwan, as an October 2025 U.S.-China trade truce approaches its November expiry. Trump is scheduled to greet Xi at Andrews Air Force Base on Wednesday before a White House ceremony on Thursday, with Xi departing Friday. The truce suspended steep U.S. tariff increases on Chinese goods while China eased restrictions on rare-earth exports, although Chinese rare-earth shipments to the United States have continued to decline. U.S. and Chinese officials held talks on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday without meaningful progress, and negotiators are due to continue discussions in Washington. AI is emerging as a major summit issue. Both governments appear unwilling to slow development, making narrowly defined safeguards such as an emergency hotline for AI incidents or a dialogue mechanism more likely than limits on research or deployment. China is accelerating open-weight models, domestic chips and data-center investment, while Washington remains concerned about Chinese use of model distillation and could tighten export controls. Taiwan and a multibillion-dollar U.S. arms sale also remain central points of contention.