Trump to visit China in November amid NoKor spat
WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump will visit China in November, a person familiar with his plans said, as tensions flare on the Korean peninsula due to Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests. White House officials declined to comment, according to a report on Bloomberg yesterday.
Trump is expected to attend the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation and Association of Southeast Asian Nations summits in Vietnam and the Philippines in November.
Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Trump to visit China when the two leaders met for the first time at Trump’s golf resort in Florida in April. During that meeting, Trump notified Xi that he had authorized air strikes on Syria over allegations of chemical-weapons use, Bloomberg reported.
Trump previously said in wire reports that he’d taken a liking to the Chinese leader, but in the months since, he’s reverted to criticizing China for its trade policies and has berated the country for failing to exert sufficient pressure on North Korea.
Trump regularly calls on China to stop North Korea’s nuclear advancement and said in July it could “easily” end the crisis.
Leaders in Beijing see the opposite. While the US and China agree Pyongyang should be rid of nuclear weapons, they differ on how best to achieve that.