{"id":725,"date":"2026-05-11T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:48:14","slug":"trump-heads-to-china-this-week-to-meet-xi-as-iran-war-and-trade-disputes-loom-over-summit-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Trump heads to China this week to meet Xi as Iran war and trade disputes loom over summit \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ahead of travelling to China tomorrow, Donald Trump is in Washington today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re expecting to hear from the president a couple of times. First at an event for maternal healthcare in the Oval Office at 10:30am ET. Later, at 4pm ET, he\u2019ll welcome the 2026 College National Football Champions, Indiana University, to the White House.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/11\/trump-china-iran-trade-warsh-politics-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017 Sign up for the Breaking News &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=725\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}