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Trump Says He Will Meet Xi on Sept. 24, but Only Meet Putin After the War Ends
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Trump Says He Will Meet Xi on Sept. 24, but Only Meet Putin After the War Ends

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • U.S. President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit the United States and meet him on Sept. 24.
  • The visit would mark Xi’s first trip to Washington since 2016 and his first visit to the United States since November 2023.
  • Trump said he would prefer to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin after an agreement ends the war in Ukraine.

Donald Trump says Xi Jinping will visit the White House on Sept. 24, describing the planned meeting as something he is “really looking forward to.” China has not formally announced the trip, but Trump repeated the date while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Sept. 2.

He is coming on the 24th, and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m very happy to have invited him.

— Donald TrumpTrump confirmed the expected date of Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States.

“We have a lot of good things to discuss,” Trump said, calling the agenda with Xi “very, very productive.” Xi’s visit would be his first to the United States since November 2023 and his first trip to Washington since the nuclear security summit in April 2016.

The meeting took shape after Trump visited Beijing in May. At the end of that trip, Trump said he had invited Xi to the White House for Sept. 24, and he repeated the date in July. Xi’s planned visit is therefore expected to proceed as scheduled despite the lack of a formal announcement from the Chinese government.

We have a lot of good things to discuss. Very, very productive things to discuss with President Xi.

— Donald TrumpTrump described the agenda planned for the meeting with Xi.

Trump also expressed interest in another meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but attached a condition: the war in Ukraine must end first. Asked whether he planned to meet Putin again soon, Trump said, “I want to do it when we’re ready to make a peace deal.”

I want to do it when we’re ready to make a peace deal.

— Donald TrumpTrump explained why he would prefer to meet Vladimir Putin after the Ukraine war ends.

He added that the United States wanted good relations with Russia, Ukraine and all countries, saying that this would help business. Trump said he could meet Putin immediately, but preferred to do so after the war ended and believed that would happen.

We want to have good relations with Russia, Ukraine and all countries. It would be very good for business.

— Donald TrumpTrump linked improved relations with the countries involved to economic benefits.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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