Trump’s arrival in Beijing this week marks the seventh face-to-face encounter between the two leaders since 2017, a relationship that has oscillated between confrontation and tactical accommodation without ever resolving its structural tensions.
Their meeting history tells its own story: early encounters at Mar-a-Lago and Hamburg gave way to trade war, then to a series of sideline summits at G20 and APEC that produced short-term truces rather than any durable agreements. The Busan meeting in October 2025 secured a one-year pause in the tariff war, but that truce expires in November, making the Beijing summit a critical moment for both sides.
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