World’s Most Important Relationship Tested by Trump-Xi Meeting

When Donald Trump’s plane touches down in Beijing, he’ll become the first sitting US president to visit China in nearly a decade. His two-day summit with Xi Jinping extends a personal relationship that’s weathered a tariff war, pandemic and historic energy crisis.

The two men — septuagenarians with June birthdays just one day apart — have met at least six times over the past decade. Those meetings have mostly unfolded on the sidelines of major multilateral summits, although both men have visited each other’s nations and been treated to grand displays of respect.