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Oh, and Selena, it looks like President Trump is walking down the stairs right now, coming out of Air Force One.
Again, the president just landed in Beijing for a highstake summit with President Xi there in China.
Selena, walk us through this moment.
Yeah, Diana.
I mean, this is a historic moment.
I mean, the president coming off of this plane, making his way to China, the first US president to step foot in China in nearly a decade.
Again, President Trump himself was the first to do so nearly a decade ago.
I'm not getting the feed on my screen here just yet, but I assume we are having some technical issues here.
So, I can't see exactly what's happening.
But again, this is a moment where President Trump is expecting to walk into a red carpet moment.
Again, these two leaders, President Trump has talked very warmly of Xi Jinping despite some of the the sanctions and the tough rhetoric and action we have seen from his administration leading up to this.
President Trump said he expects this warm bear hug from President Xi Jinping when they meet later this year.
He's talked about Xi Jinping as a friend.
These are not words you normally hear from a sitting US president about a major US adversary and competitor.
The president has made his way down the stairs.
He's now on that red carpet being greeted by the Chinese officials there.
The vice president was set to greet him. the vice president of China, the ambassador, US ambassador to China, ambassador of the people's republic of China to the US, and then the executive vice minister of foreign affairs.
Uh it looks like the first lady behind him.
Hard to make out the other people there behind the president, but for sure, President Trump there at the foot of the red carpet and now making his way down the red carpet.
And Selena, we're seeing a little bit of what you talked about before, the pump and circumstance.
We know the president likes that and clearly China's trying to deliver here today.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, China wants this meeting to go off without a hitch just as much as the US does.
And they're looking at this from a very long view, right?
This is a relationship they want to maintain.
They want to see stability in decades to come when it comes to the US administration.
They know that the US is obviously bound by electoral cycles in a way that China is not.
But President Trump, he is known to be mercurial and they want to make sure that they stay in the good graces and don't land themselves in another trade war.
What's also really interesting here is um again I can't see the feed here because we have some technical issues, but President Trump, he is flanked by a lot of his top administration officials, but someone who's factoring very heavily in this broader bilateral relationship is the US trade representative and the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant.
He has made many trips to the Asia-Pacific region.
He has he is accompanying the president obviously on this trip and that really just speaks to how important the economic relationship is when it comes to this bilateral meeting.
>> And Celita, it looks like it's Lara and Eric Trump.
That's who I was seeing at the at the base of the red carpet there before.
Larara Trump, president's daughter-in-law, Eric Trump, his son.
And of course, all those CEOs coming along for this trip.
We can see Elon Musk there in the crowd.
What's different, Selena, about this trip compared to when the president visits allies like France or the UK?
>> I mean, there's so many factors that are different.
I mean, first of all, these are the world's two biggest superpowers, right?
I mean, the stakes here really couldn't be higher.
And President Trump, unlike other presidents, a lot of the foreign policy filters directly through himself.
He doesn't rely on a lot of lower level negotiations leading up to those these trips.
I mean, there's some of that, but not in the same way that previous administrations have done.
So, a lot of this relationship hinges literally on these two leaders and their personal relationship and how they speak face to face.
Uh, there's not as much of the back channeling.
Uh, President Trump, as you know, he just picks up the phone and calls Xi Jinping himself.
So, a lot is riding on this meeting between these two leaders and how they really kick it off and hit it off.
>> Selena, it's a very different meeting than probably what the president was was expecting when it was originally planned.
The war with Iran is expected to be front and center.
How do you expect him to approach those conversations?
And what's China's angle on it?
>> Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, President Trump has given mixed signals when it comes to this, but his administration, just Secretary of State Marco Rubio just days ago very much made it clear that they want Beijing to use that relationship they have with Tyrron to convince China to play a bigger mediating role when it comes to this conflict.
Right?
China is obviously a big partner of Iran's.
They are major purchaser of their oil.
Uh Trump wants Xi Jinping to use that pressure over Iran to try and extract some concessions when it comes to bringing an end to this war.
But again, what I'm hearing from experts is that Beijing sees this differently.
While they would prefer this war never started and that it ends soon, they really see this as America's.
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