Donald Trump lands in China for high-stakes meeting with Xi Jinping

US President Donald Trump has just landed in Beijing, China, where he will holding talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping over the next two days.

He arrived to a brass band playing and flag wavers performing a routine while chanting "welcome welcome, a warm welcome" as he got into his presidential vehicle.

Trump's party includes tech CEOS, including Telsa boss Elon Musk, who was seen on the tarmac.

During his two-day visit, Trump will hold high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Vice-President Han Zheng was at the tarmac to receive Trump as he walked down the steps from Air Force One.

Han is among China’s top leaders and sending him to receive Trump is being read as Beijing showing the US president respect. Last time, during his 2017 visit, they sent a lower-level leader, State Councillor Yang Jiechi.

Han also attended Trump’s inauguration last year.

Some big name business leaders have got off the plane with President Trump in Beijing, the CEO’s of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla and Boeing among them.

But overall the amount of trade between the two countries has been falling in recent years amid a deepening trade war, and the tariffs and other trade restrictions that has brought.

Last year two-way trade was worth $414.7bn (£307.3bn), which is along way down on the $690.4bn (£511.6bn) that it peaked at in 2022.

One of the big issues President Trump has is the unbalanced nature of that trade, with America buying over $200bn more goods from China last year than it sold to it.

One way to tackle that is to sell more American goods to China, which will be popular back home for the jobs and opportunities it would create.

Some of the most likely beneficiaries could be US soybean and beef farmers as well as planemaker Boeing.

Its CEO Kelly Ortberg recently told investors he was "highly confident" of a deal that would mean "a big number" of new planes being ordered as a result of this summit.

However, when China and the US struck a trade deal in President Trump’s first term Beijing didn’t buy everything it said it would. It remains to be seen if history will repeat itself.