Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in the U.S. for summit with President Trump

Summit and state dinner on the 24th... 2 nights and 3 days schedule until the 25th

(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Seong-min = Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the United States on the 23rd (local time) for a summit meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

President Xi's private plane landed at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, D.C., at 5:39 p.m. Eastern time on this day. President Xi's wife, Peng Liyuan, also attended.

President Trump and his wife Melania came to the airport to greet President Xi and his wife as they got off their private plane.

President Xi will hold a summit meeting with President Trump at the White House on the afternoon of the 24th. On the evening of the same day, a state dinner will be held for President Xi and his wife at the White House.

President Xi plans to complete his visit to the US until the 25th and then conclude his 3-day, 2-night visit.

This visit is a state visit. It has been 11 years since President Xi visited the United States as a state guest in 2015, when President Barack Obama was in office.

This is the third time that the leaders of the two countries have met since the inauguration of the second Trump administration, following Busan in October last year and Beijing in May this year.

President Xi's visit to the United States is a return visit following President Trump's visit to China in mid-May, and marks the first time in four months that the two leaders, who are competing for global hegemony, will sit face to face.

There are many predictions that President Trump and President Xi will focus on stably managing the relationship between the two countries during this meeting.

Rather than strengthening their friendship and attempting to resolve the conflict entirely, the focus is expected to be on extending the 'trade truce' agreed upon at the end of last year's tariff war.

In addition, as the theory of humanity's destruction or speed control has recently risen rapidly in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, attention is being paid to whether there will be agreement on establishing minimum safety measures in the AI ​​field.