U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he expects to visit China next year and that President Xi Jinping would likely travel to “maybe Washington or Palm Beach or someplace” sometime after. “We pretty much agreed that I’ll be going to China,” Trump said, talking to reporters on Air Force One, as he dangled the prospect of reciprocal summits to the Chinese leader. The comments come as U.S. and Chinese officials said they had reached a framework for a trade deal ahead of Trump’s meeting with Xi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea this Thursday. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the agreement would ensure that China does not impose export controls on rare earths and that the U.S. would not move forward with 100 percent tariffs on Chinese imports slated for Nov. 1. It would also include “a final deal” on the sale of video-sharing platform TikTok in the U.S., Bessent added. Trump said Saturday, as he boarded his flight to Malaysia, that both sides may make sacrifices to ease tensions. “Sure, they’ll have to make concessions,” Trump said. “I guess we will, too.” He warned that “157 percent tariffs” on Chinese goods were “not sustainable for them,” while reiterating his willingness to “press ahead” with measures if talks falter. “I have a lot of respect for President Xi,” Trump said Monday. “He likes me a lot, I believe, and respects me. And I think he respects our country a lot. We’re going to have a successful transaction for both countries.” Trump visited Beijing as U.S. president in November 2017. Xi had visited the U.S. in April of that same year, when the two leaders met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. At the time, a White House spokesperson said the Chinese delegation had requested Mar-a-Lago as the venue for the meeting. During dinner — where Trump served the Chinese leader one of his favorite meals, dry-aged steak and whipped potatoes — he joked to reporters, “We had a long discussion already and so far I have gotten nothing, absolutely nothing.” But he added the two leaders had “developed a friendship.”

OTTAWA — President Donald Trump abruptly halted “all trade negotiations” with Canada late Thursday night over an ad that enlisted the voice of Ronald Reagan to oppose U.S. tariffs. Ontario Premier Doug Ford predicted earlier this week that the president would not be “too happy” with the 60-second spot his province produced to warn Americans that Trump’s tariffs could ultimately kill their jobs. “The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.” Earlier in the evening, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation hit back at the ad, saying it “misrepresents” Reagan’s presidential radio address on April 25, 1987, which was focused on free and fair trade. The foundation said the Government of Ontario “did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks” and that it is reviewing its legal options. “We encourage you to watch President Reagan’s unedited video on our YouTube channel.” The offices of Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said they would not be commenting on Thursday, but they would likely have more to say on Friday. “The commercial uses an unedited excerpt from one of President Reagan’s public addresses, which is available through public domain,” a spokesperson for Ford said in an email to CBC News. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “The quote of former President Ronald Reagan was recognizing that ultimately somebody pays the tariff — and it’s the consumer,” Carney said when asked about it during an interview last week with Toronto’s RED-FM. “The company passes it on, the price goes up eventually, and you pay the cost of the tariff.” Trump has imposed double-digit tariffs on Canada’s steel, aluminum, auto, lumber and copper sectors. The president has said he is open to renegotiating the United States–Mexico–Canada Free Trade Agreement, but has also left open the possibility of abandoning the framework altogether. Carney, a former central bank governor in Canada and Britain, continued: “As an economist, I say that if somebody is trading fairly, it’s better not to have tariffs between those countries.” The prime minister noted that Trump’s White House is committed to tariffs. “I don’t agree with their policy, but I recognize that is their policy, and I don’t expect it to change.”LeBlanc and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had a meeting scheduled for this week, an official familiar with the trade negotiations told POLITICO. They were granted anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter. It’s unclear if the two had met, or if the Liberal government received a heads-up. Carney was previously blindsided by the president in June when Trump halted trade negotiations over Canada’s then-Digital Services Tax. Negotiations resumed days later when Carney’s government agreed to rescind the tax, which would have cost U.S. tech companies like Amazon and Google billions of dollars. Carney said earlier in the day Thursday that he speaks “frequently” with Trump, but couldn’t reach him to bet on the World Series, which kicks off Friday with the Toronto Blue Jays up against the Los Angeles Dodgers. “I think he’s afraid to make a bet,” Carney said, smiling while attending a Jays practice in Toronto. “He hasn’t returned my call yet on the bet. I’m ready. We’re ready to make a bet with the U.S.”White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that Trump isn’t a big gambler. The Ontario ad has aired in major markets, including D.C., and during the Toronto Blue Jays’ games. “We’re going to repeat that message to every Republican district there is right across the entire country,” Ford said last week before the ad launched. Reagan’s address warned of the long-term economic perils of tariffs on foreign imports sold to Americans as a protectionist policy and explained they were imposed to sort a particular problem — not to begin a trade war. “But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American, worker and consumer,” Reagan narrates in the ad. “High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down and millions of people lose their jobs.” China’s embassy in Washington notably used the same Reagan clip to troll Trump’s global tariffs when the China-U.S. trade war heated up in the spring. “I do believe that everybody’s too smart for that,” Trump said Tuesday after catching the anti-tariffs spot. Carney and Trump will both be in Malaysia and South Korea to attend ASEAN and APEC, with Carney scheduled to leave for Asia Friday morning.

President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea on Oct. 30, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. The president will participate in a bilateral meeting with the Chinese leader at the end of a trip through three countries in Asia. She did not provide any details on the content of the meeting. While Trump said weeks ago that he would meet with Xi at the APEC summit, no date had been announced. The meeting would be Thursday morning local time in Busan, South Korea. On Wednesday, Trump predicted that the two leaders would come to agreements on everything from trade to nuclear power. He also plans to address China’s purchase of Russian oil. Trade tensions between the two nations have flared in recent weeks after Trump announced 100 percent tariffs on Chinese exports, which are set to take effect two days after the leaders meet. Trump’s pledge came after China announced newly imposed export-controls on rare earth metals and related technology in electronics and military goods. The new U.S. tariffs would be “over and above any Tariff” that China is already paying, Trump wrote in a social media post earlier this month. Trump added Wednesday that his priority is to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Xi “would now like to see that war end,” the president said. It will be the first in-person meeting between the leaders since 2019, when the two met in Japan at the G20 summit. Leavitt added that Trump will also participate in bilateral meetings with the leaders of Malaysia, Japan and South Korea during the trip.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Donald Trump may be on everyone’s minds at the G20, but he’s not on anyone’s lips. The annual gathering of many of the world’s largest economies has featured intense discussion of climate change, global hunger, conflicts in Europe and the Middle East — along with some bittersweet remarks from Joe Biden on his final overseas trip as U.S. president. But even as Trump’s reelection looms large over the gathering in Rio de Janeiro, and is deeply relevant to virtually all the discussions at hand, no one is eager to discuss the president-elect. World leaders have already moved on from President Joe Biden, who has been peppered with questions about Trump since arriving in South America on Thursday, when he arrived at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima. But they’re not ready to speak openly in many cases about how they’re thinking about Trump. None of the Brazilian ministers and officials who gave press conferences to assembled media on Monday mentioned Trump, either. Nor did the gathering’s host, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, mention the U.S. president-elect in his public-facing speeches. France’s Emmanuel Macron — who, unusually among leaders present at the G20, allowed his afternoon speech to be broadcast — didn’t mention Trump by name. But it didn’t take a genius to work out who he was referring to when he said that “any breaking up of the international order by tariffs policies pursued by the strongest will encourage the others not to respect [the international order]” and warned of the “fragmentation” of the world order if the world’s most powerful economies engaged in a trade war. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was at pains not to criticize an ally when asked about criticism of support for Ukraine by Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. Starmer deflected, and spoke about the need to counter Russia in the war for “our own freedoms” too. Even Biden is staying mum about his successor. He’s alluded to a change in administrations — telling leaders at the APEC summit in Peru that it would be his last of such meetings and saying in a speech in the Amazon rainforest on Sunday that it is “no secret” he is leaving office in January. But he’s ignored more direct questions from reporters about Trump’s win and his looming second term. As he wrapped his opening remarks at a meeting on Friday with the Japanese prime minister and South Korean president, Biden did not respond when a reporter asked what he told his counterparts about the impending second Trump administration. He gave a tight-lipped smile when he was asked a few hours later his message to allies about his successor. And he ignored repeated invitations from the press traveling with him from Peru to Brazil to take questions. And administration officials have also attempted to downplay the role that Trump has played in the pair of foreign summits. After Biden’s meeting with the Japanese prime minister and South Korean president, a senior administration official, granted anonymity to speak about the discussion, said the “president-elect’s name did not come up.” Even Trump’s relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, undoubtedly a source of concern for the South Koreans, was not discussed, according to the official. Asked by another official if Trump was discussed in the president’s bilateral meeting with the Peruvian leader, the official said: “Not explicitly, no.” In a briefing with reporters after Biden’s meeting with China’s leader Xi Jinping, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that Biden “noted the obvious facts that there will be a new administration on January 20th.” Still, Sullivan said Biden “was really focused on the fact that there is a transition unfolding, that President Biden is determined for that transition to be smooth and for him to pass the relationship off, and he would like to pass it off on stable terms to the new administration.” It’s not to say that all the world leaders in the Marvelous City are privately grieving the return of Trump — some are openly celebrating. Argentine President Javier Milei, who visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago golf club in Florida before the gathering in Brazil, posted on X a clip of his speech where he crowed about how “the global elite cries at the humiliating defeat of the communist Kamala Harris.” But the relative silence at the gathering is occurring as Trump telegraphs that he will play hardball on the international stage in order to advance American interests and once again upend progress made under Biden on reaching new global climate agreements and integrating and collaborating further with allies and partners. Ahead of the gatherings, he unveiled nominations for his administration at a breakneck pace, among them many of the key interlocutors foreign governments will deal with over the next four years — including his secretary of State, national security adviser, secretary of Defense and U.N. ambassador. Some of those picks have signaled an administration that will be dominated by loyalists and skeptics of multilateral forums and engagements. Tech mogul Elon Musk’s growing presence in Trump’s orbit has also prompted some observers to worry about potential effects on the U.S.-Europe relationship, especially as Musk has often sparred with European regulators. If world leaders are unnerved by some of Trump’s staffing decisions, they’re not taking the bait. Asked about Trump’s cabinet picks by reporters on the flight with him to Rio, Starmer said: “I’m not going to comment on each of the appointments that President-elect Trump makes as he makes them. We have a constructive relationship.” Starmer also punted when asked about Musk’s crying emoji tweet at Ukraine, saying “I’m not going to do a running commentary on what others say or do in relation to Ukraine.” At least some world leaders are expressing confidence that international institutions will be equipped to respond to any shocks caused by Trump. When asked about how the international community should respond, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres told reporters on Sunday that “the most important is to recognize the importance of multilateralism and to trust the multilateralism institutions.” The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment. Compared to his previous term, Trump will face a very different slate of foreign counterparts, adding to the geopolitical uncertainty as leaders strategize about how best to navigate the famously mercurial and transactional businessperson. He had a “bromance” with Macron, who will remain in office through 2027, but many of the other leaders with whom he built warm ties — namely Japan’s Shinzo Abe and Mexico’s Andres Manuel López Obrador — have left office or died. Sam Blewett, Clea Caulcutt, Lauren Egan and Joe Stanley-Smith reported from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Eric Bazail-Eimil reported from Washington.

LIMA, Peru — Even 3,000 miles away from the White House, President Joe Biden cannot escape questions about Donald Trump’s return to power. As Biden sat in a small conference room for a meeting on Friday with the leaders of Japan and South Korea, he ignored reporters’ shouted questions about what he’s told his counterparts at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit here about an impending second Trump administration. “This is likely to be my last trilateral meeting with this important group, but I’m proud to have helped be one of the parts of building this — this partnership, and I think it’s built to last,” Biden said in opening remarks. “That’s my hope and expectation.” A few hours later, sitting next to the Peruvian president for a one-on-one meeting at the sprawling Lima Convention Center, he gave a tight-lipped smile to the press corps after a reporter again asked his message to allies about his successor. Biden arrived in Lima on Thursday evening, just over a week after Trump’s election win. The president, who will travel to Rio de Janeiro on Sunday for the G20 summit, had hoped the trip would serve as the capstone to his decadeslong foreign policy career. But Trump’s reelection has cast a shadow over the visit, threatening to unravel Biden’s efforts to revitalize U.S. alliances and to steady a rapidly changing global order. As leaders meet in Lima and Rio, they will confront how to handle ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and eastern Europe. Tackling climate change will also be a major focus, one which Biden plans to highlight with a brief visit to the Amazon rainforest in between the two summits. Biden is also scheduled to meet Saturday afternoon with Chinese President Xi Jinping before departing Lima. Despite warning for months that Trump presented a unique threat to the core of American democracy and the Constitution, Biden has tried to project a sense of calm since the election. In a Rose Garden speech two days after the election, Biden reassured the country that the “American experiment endures,” and said, “We’re going to be OK.” He’s emphasized the importance of a peaceful transition of power, something Trump denied him four years ago. And he even hosted Trump for a two-hour-long Oval Office meeting the day before he departed for APEC. And all week long, Trump has dominated the conversation in the U.S. and abroad with a flurry of personnel appointments at all hours through leaks, social media posts and formal announcements. The range of personalities chosen — from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as secretary of State, to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary — have left American allies alternatively reassured and perplexed about the direction of the next administration. Senior Biden administration officials at APEC have also been peppered with questions about whether Trump is coming up in the president’s closed-door meetings with other world leaders. But officials here have tried to assuage any anxiety, downplaying allies’ concerns about the election and insisting that Trump has not been a topic of discussion. After Biden’s meeting with the Japanese prime minister and South Korean president, a senior administration official, granted anonymity to speak about the discussion, said the “president-elect’s name did not come up.” Even Trump’s relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, undoubtedly a source of concern for the South Koreans, was not discussed, according to the official. “What we’re focused on is the here and now,” the official said. “There was a recognition that we’re in a period of transition. But as we often say, there’s one president at a time, and the focus of this meeting was what are we going to do together, especially over the next couple of months.” Another senior administration official, also granted anonymity to share details about Biden’s meeting with the Peruvian president, said that Trump was not a focus of the 50-minute-long conversation. “It really focused on the current U.S. bilateral relationship,” the official said. “President Biden did underscore the importance of respect for democracy and strengthening democratic institutions, as he does in all of his meetings with democratic counterparts around the world.” Asked again if Trump came up at all with the Peruvians, the official said: “Not explicitly, no.”

LIMA, Peru — President Joe Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping met for just under two hours on the sidelines of the APEC summit Saturday, marking the end to their 15-year diplomatic relationship and ushering in a new era of uncertainty as Donald Trump prepares to return to office. The two leaders agreed to avoid giving artificial intelligence control of nuclear weapons systems, and they made progress toward the release of the two U.S. citizens behind bars in China that the State Department considers “wrongfully detained.” Biden also pressured Xi to rein in North Korea’s support of Russia in its conflict with Ukraine. Biden is looking for ways to emergency-proof the U.S.-China relationship before Trump takes over the White House. And Saturday’s substantive meeting was a sign that both leaders were trying to make the most of Biden’s remaining few weeks in office. The surprise agreement on AI marks a breakthrough in the Biden administration’s efforts over the past four years on issues of nuclear safety and proliferation. Beijing has repeatedly rebuffed those efforts and canceled a working group meeting on nuclear arms control in July in protest of a U.S. weapons sale to Taiwan. The agreement Saturday commits both countries to ensure that “there should be human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters in a post-meeting press briefing. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s readout of the leaders’ discussion confirmed the agreement and described it as a joint recognition “to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons.” The Chinese also reiterated their desire for “more dialogue and cooperation” with the U.S. and the need to avoid a “new Cold War,” while warning that “containing China is unwise, unacceptable and bound to fail.” In brief public remarks at the Chinese delegation’s hotel, the two leaders emphasized the importance of stability in the U.S.-China relationship. Speaking through a translator, Xi said both countries should “inject more certainty and positive energy into the turbulent world.” Biden said that such in-person conversations “prevent miscalculations, and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer into conflict.” It was a notable shift in tone from the last time the two leaders met at the 2023 APEC gathering in San Francisco, in the wake of the Chinese spy balloon incident. Biden walked out of the four-hour long meeting then and, in a news conference, called Xi a “dictator” for the second time. Biden officials had downplayed expectations ahead of this year’s meeting, telling reporters not to anticipate the president emerging from the discussion with a list of deliverables. But the surprisingly productive meeting comes as Trump threatens to upend the relative stability between the two countries when he takes office in January. Trump promised during his campaign to impose punishing tariffs on China, and his recent Cabinet selections have indicated he will take a much more hawkish approach to the U.S.-China relationship, tacking away from Biden’s strategy of responsibly “managing competition.” Trump said he would nominate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a fierce critic of Beijing, to be his secretary of State. He has also selected Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) as national security adviser, and former Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to lead the CIA, both of whom have also been critical of China. Beijing has limited its comments on Trump’s electoral victory to a congratulatory message from Xi and hasn’t addressed the president-elect’s appointments of China hawks over the past week.. But in a nod to the incoming Trump administration, Xi warned that productive U.S.-China ties were at risk if either country makes moves to “pursue vicious competition and seek to hurt each other,” China’s official news agency Xinhua said in post-meeting reporting. In a speech earlier Saturday, Xi also hinted at the potential challenges of a Trump’s presidency, warning of “rising tendencies of geopolitics, unilateralism and protectionism.” Still, as he greeted Biden Saturday afternoon, Xi said China “is ready to work with the new U.S. administration to maintain communication, expand cooperation and manage differences, so as to strive for a steady transition of the China-U.S. relationship for the benefit of the two peoples. … China’s goal of a stable, healthy and sustainable China-U.S. relationship remains unchanged.” Biden did not host a press conference after the meeting, as he’s done the previous two times he’s met in-person with Xi since he took office in 2021. Instead, national security adviser Jake Sullivan took questions from reporters gathered in a hotel ballroom overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Although Biden officials attending APEC have downplayed Trump’s looming presence at the meeting, Sullivan acknowledged that the incoming administration was a feature of Biden’s discussion with Xi. “President Biden noted the obvious facts that there will be a new administration,” Sullivan said. “From President Biden’s perspective, he wasn’t projecting ahead to what was going to happen after January 20. He was really focused on the fact that there is a transition unfolding that President Biden’s determined — for that transition to be smooth and for him to pass the relationship off — and he’d like to pass it off on stable terms to the new administration.”