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Trump will be at the airport to greet Xi when China's leader arrives for his US state visit · Best of: Features

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  Trump will be at the airport to greet Xi when China leader
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  arrives for his US state visit. Written by Darlene Superville.
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  Washington, the AP The first state visit by the leader of China
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  in more than a decade takes place next week, when President Xi
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  Jinping arrives in Washington for high stakes talks, and a little schmoozing
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  at the White House.
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  With President Donald Trump. When Xi's plan lands at Joint Base Andrews
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  just outside Washington on Wednesday, Trump will be there to welcome Xi
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  for the State visit, senior administration officials told reporters. That's unusual. Trump
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  typically meets foreign leaders at the White House. The heart of they
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  visit comes Thursday when Trump and first
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  lady Melania Trump welcome Xi and his wife Peng Li Yuan at
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  an arrival ceremony held indoors on the state floor of the White
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  House. Trump and Xi will
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  also participate in a review of troops in the Rose Garden before
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  the retreat behind closed doors for their talks. The First Lady and
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  Peng Liuan will hold a separate engagement while their spouses get down
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  to business. Details were not released during a call, the officials held
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  Friday to brief reporters on Xi's visit. She and his wife will
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  also be the guests of honor Thursday as Trump and the First
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  Lady host the Chinese delegation for a state dinner in the East
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  Room. Trump described the dinner as an event everyone wants to attend.
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  Both leaders will deliver remarks. Thousands of people would love to be
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  at that dinner, Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office. He
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  appeared to lament that the one thousand person ballroom he is adding
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  on to the White House will not be available for the soiree,
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  because it is still under construction. This is a very tough ticket
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  for me. I've told a lot of very good friends of mine,
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  you just can't come, Trump said. White House shares some names on
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  the State Dinner Guest List. But some of the Republican president's tech
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  industry friends have been invited. Among the executives scheduled to attend the
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  state dinner are Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla and SpaceX's Elon Musk,
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  son Paicheye of Google, and Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell Technologies,
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  the White House said. Also on the guest list are Nvidia's Jensen
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  Huang, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Jane Fraser, the CEO of Citigroup, and Tim
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  Cook who recently stepped down as the CEO of Apple. Next Friday,
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  Xi and Peng Liuan are scheduled to return to the White House
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  for a private tea with the Trumps, who will then take them
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  on a tour of the National Archives, the home of some of
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  the United States most important founding documents, as the nation celebrates its
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  two hundred fiftieth anniversary. C will head for Joint Base Andrews after
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  they tour. Tariffs, artificial intelligence, rare earths on the agenda. As for
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  other substantive parts of the visit, U.S. Officials said Washington and Beijing
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  may be ready to ease some tariffs on some non-strategic goods. Discussing
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  The visit during a call with reporters, senior US officials said such
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  a move might affect a narrow band of goods that would advantage
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  both sides. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity under ground
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  rules set by the White House, did not elaborate. But they said
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  they did not expect the United States would be ready to ease
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  export controls to allow for a greater flow of rare earth minerals,
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  critical components in a wide range of products, into the global market.
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  The officials said China’s maintaining an acceptable flow of such minerals would
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  be discussed, but there was unlikely to be an exchange involving reduced
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  US export controls. Separately, Treasury Secretary Bessent will meet over the weekend
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  in New York with Chinese Vice Premier He Li Feng to discuss
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  a range of economic issues, according to a person familiar with the
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  plans who spoke on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized
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  to discuss The details publicly. Artificial intelligence will be a focus of
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  the talks, the person said. In Beijing, China's Commerce Ministry announced that
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  he would lead a delegation to the US from Saturday to Wednesday
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  for economic and trade consultations. Also on the agenda will be China's
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  stockpiles of rare earth minerals, essential to everything from smartphones to fighter
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  jets. Beijing has used its near monopoly on the minerals to bring
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  the United States to the negotiating table in a trade war started
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  by Trump's tariffs and other sanctions on China. The talks might continue
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  at the working level into Monday, the person said. US Trade Representative
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  Jameson Greer will join Bessent on Sunday for the meeting with he,
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  Greer's office announced Friday evening. Trump visited China in May, as well
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  as in his first term, for talks with Xi, who rolled out
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  the red carpet for his American counterpart. She was last in the
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  United States for a state visit in September 2015 during the administration
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  of Democrat Barack Obama. Associated Press writers Sung Min Kim, Will Weisert,
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  Paul Wiseman, and Ken Moritsugu contributed to this report.