Fanfare in Beijing, as Trump is welcomed for summit

北京盛况空前,特朗普峰会欢迎仪式举行

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2026-05-14

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President Trump has been given a lavish welcome to Beijing where he and American business leaders will hold talks with their Chinese counterparts on Thursday. Also on the programme, is the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, about to be forced out of office? And, we hear from Alex Batty, the British boy who sparked a high-profile international missing person investigation. He tells us what happened. (Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng during an arrival ceremony at Beijing Capital International Airport, in Beijing, China, May 13, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci)
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  • Hello and welcome to News Hour from the World Service of the BBC.

  • We're coming live from London and this is Owen Bennett-Jones.

  • You may remember in his first term, President Trump entertained the Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

  • That was April 2017 and led to that extraordinary moment when Mr Trump ordered US airstrikes on Syria

  • while Xi was still at the dinner table.

  • Well, nine years later, the two men have another meeting with all the protocol you would expect for an encounter

  • between what are the two most powerful men on Earth.

  • Well, Trump has been saying this trip will be very special.

  • It may also be a bit fraught.

  • The two men do have a lot of tricky issues to get through.

  • So what are they likely to be talking about?

  • Our China correspondent Laura Bicker is in Beijing.

  • So I'm calling it the 40s.