6 takeaways from Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi World Oct 30, 2025 11:41 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he had an “amazing” meeting Thursday with China’s top leader Xi Jinping that produced very important decisions. The first official Chinese comments on the meeting were less specific and suggested any trade deal is not done.

Trump met with Xi on the sidelines of Pacific Rim summit gatherings in South Korea, where the two leaders agreed to dial back some of their trade measures and work together to resolve others.

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The one hour and 40 minute meeting’s agenda appears not to have touched on some perennial problems such as tensions over the self-governed island of Taiwan.

But Trump said China had ag

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