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Chinese diplomacy stated that China and the United States agreed to implement all existing trade agreements and to create two new bilateral councils. President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States was confirmed for the northern hemisphere’s autumn, in response to the invitation made by President Donald Trump.
The two-day summit between Presidents Donald Trump of the United States and Xi Jinping of China ended on May 15, 2026, with the confirmation of the full continuation of the trade agreements established between the two countries in previous rounds. The official statement was released by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs hours after the American president’s departure from Chinese territory. The two countries also decided to create a trade council and an investment council to institutionalize bilateral dialogue and provide predictability to the next stages of negotiations.
The motivation for strengthening the trade agreements comes from the intense economic dispute that has marked the relationship between the United States and China for years, with tariffs, technological restrictions, and disagreements over market access. Trump arrived in Beijing on May 14, accompanied by a delegation of executives valued at about 12 trillion dollars in combined economic weight. The result announced by Chinese diplomacy signals a slowdown in tensions and opens the way for the official visit that Xi Jinping is expected to make to the United States in the northern hemisphere’s autumn, a period that runs from September to December 2026, in response to the invitation made by Trump during the summit.
What Chinese diplomacy said after the summit
The statement released by China was signed by Wang Yi, Beijing’s chief diplomat and the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. The official note highlighted that the delegations achieved positive results on different fronts of the bilateral agenda discussed at the meeting between the two presidents.
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“The delegations of the two countries achieved generally positive results, including the continuation of the implementation of all consensuses reached in previous consultations and the agreement to establish a trade council and an investment council,” said Wang Yi in a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The central point of the declaration is the commitment to fully maintain what has already been negotiated between the two countries. Instead of seeking to revoke or renegotiate trade agreements established in previous rounds, both parties opted to reaffirm the validity of these pacts and create institutional mechanisms to conduct the next stages of the bilateral economic relationship.
What the new trade and investment councils will be
The creation of two new bilateral councils was announced as the most concrete advancement of the summit. Each council will focus on a specific area of the relationship between the United States and China, with the mission of discussing pending issues, aligning interpretations on existing trade agreements, and proposing paths for open topics.
The institutionalization of dialogue is seen by analysts as a significant advancement for the predictability of the relationship. Instead of relying on occasional summits between the presidents, the two governments now have permanent channels of discussion, which reduces the risk of unexpected escalations during moments of trade crisis between the two largest economies in the world.
Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States
Another relevant announcement made by Chinese diplomacy after the summit was the confirmation of Xi Jinping’s official visit to the United States in the fall of 2026. The information was released by the state agency Xinhua and formalizes a diplomatic move that had been awaited for years.
“Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to the United States this fall at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump,” said Wang Yi this Friday, according to the Xinhua agency.
The reciprocity of bilateral meetings signals a new cycle in the relationship between the two countries. Trump went to Beijing in May, and Xi will go to Washington at some point between September and December of this year. The Chinese president’s visit to American territory usually includes meetings with business leaders, a trade agenda, and broader geopolitical issues, in a format that reinforces the state character of the trip.
The context of the summit that ended in Beijing
The summit was Trump’s first visit to China in almost ten years. The American president landed in Beijing accompanied by a delegation of executives that included Elon Musk and Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. The two businessmen were the only ones to travel with Trump directly on Air Force One, while other members of the entourage arrived on commercial flights.
The main topics on the agenda included trade tariffs, American exports of beef and soybeans, market access in China for technology companies, the Taiwan issue, artificial intelligence, chip production, and the situation in Iran. The Chinese diplomacy statement did not detail specific advancements in each of these areas, but the commitment to maintain all existing trade agreements and create bilateral councils is already considered a positive outcome by both parties.
The summit between Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing ended with signs of maintaining existing trade agreements and with the institutionalization of bilateral dialogue through two new councils. The confirmation of Xi’s visit to the United States in the fall reinforces the expectation that the tone of the relationship between the two powers will enter a more predictable phase in the coming months.
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