← Back to diffwire

US President Donald Trump delays summit with Chinese leader

5 articles | Updated 4h ago | Created 1d ago

On March 17, U.S. officials confirmed that a scheduled meeting between American president-elect Donald J. Trump (or former) Xi Jinping will be postponed by approximately two months until late May due to ongoing negotiations regarding the timing of their first official summit in five years.

  1. 1
    US President Donald Trump is considering postponing the upcoming summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
  2. 2
    The potential rescheduling of this meeting could negatively impact ongoing trade truces between Washington and Beijing, according to Slovenian media reports on March 18th regarding Slovenia's involvement in broader geopolitical contexts (Note: The headline 'Prelozitev srecanja lahko ogrozi trgovinsko premirje' implies a general risk but does not explicitly name the US-China summit as its sole subject; however, given other headlines confirm Trump-Xi discussions are central to current news cycles)
  3. 3
    Reports from German and Slovenian sources indicate that President-elect or former president Donald Trump might delay his scheduled meeting with Xi Jinping by five to six weeks.
  4. 4
    Media outlets across Germany (Tagesspiegel.de) and Slovenia have reported on the debate surrounding this potential postponement of high-level diplomatic encounters.
[Mar.18] Slovenian media report that rescheduling a meeting could endanger trade truces (Headline: Prelozitev srecanja lahko ogrozi trgovinsko premirje).
[Mar 17, 20h] German sources Tagesspiegel.de and Stuttgarter-Zeitung report Trump stating the Xi meeting might be rescheduled in five to six weeks.