Chinese President Xi Jinping landed at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington on Wednesday and was met personally on the tarmac by President Trump. The agenda includes an elaborate Rose Garden military review and official state dinner in the White House’s East Room. Most of that chichi was just foreplay before Thursday’s negotiations to extend the one-year trade war truce between the nations that’s set to run out in November. It’s quite the welcome for a leader of a country the administration calls America’s chief adversary. Then again, it’s no easy thing to follow the details of Trump’s trade policy….
News Timeline:
Track the development of this news story across the Internet.