No progress: Trump and Xi's meeting lasted just 90 minutes

October 30 2025 9 671 11

The highlight of US President Donald Trump's foreign tour was supposed to be a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, the first face-to-face meeting in several years failed to yield the major breakthroughs the White House leader had hoped for. It's simply impossible to reach agreement on much and resolve differences in 90 minutes, Bloomberg reports.

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping concluded their long-awaited summit on Thursday, which lasted about an hour and a half, marking talks they hoped would end the massive trade war that has roiled global markets.

At the end of the talks, Xi Jinping and Trump shook hands and then left the meeting together at the air base in Busan, South Korea, which was held as part of the Asia-Pacific summit. economic cooperation. After the talks, Trump returned to Washington aboard Air Force One, and Xi Jinping continued on his way to APEC.

Trump predicted a "very successful meeting" at the start of the talks. Trump always does that, even when there's little hope.

Xi and Trump were expected to discuss the details of the framework agreement, negotiated last weekend in Malaysia. Under the agreement, China will suspend its rare earth metals licensing regime for at least a year, resume soybean purchases, and make progress in combating fentanyl in exchange for reduced US tariffs and possibly other concessions.

I think we've already agreed on a lot, and we're still working on something else right now. I think we'll have a fantastic relationship for years to come.

“Trump said vaguely, adding that he considered the deal possible.

Xi told Trump that he was "very pleased to see you again" and that he was "ready to continue working with you to build a solid foundation for China-US relations."

We don't always see eye to eye, and it's perfectly normal for tensions to arise between the world's two leading economies from time to time.

- said Xi Jinping.

At the start of the meeting, the two leaders praised each other, with Trump calling Xi "a very tough negotiator" and "a great leader of a great country."

Xi Jinping praised Trump's efforts to resolve global conflicts, including in Gaza and Southeast Asia, stating that both countries can "jointly shoulder their responsibilities as major powers and work together to achieve greater things" for peace. The Chinese leader also endorsed Trump's key campaign slogan of "Make America Great Again."

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Colonel Kudasov

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30 October 2025 08: 28

There was no press conference following the meeting, which means it was a success for Russia)) Trump received a well-deserved rebuke and, out of frustration, began raving about resuming nuclear weapons testing.
prior

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30 October 2025 08: 29

Trump has exalted himself so much that there is no room for God nearby.
You can't negotiate with Trump.
Trump can only be obeyed.
Europe submitted.
All the rest did not agree.
And yet, Xi Jinping was lucky. He didn't have to fly to the middle of nowhere to have a pointless conversation with Trump. Busan isn't Anchorage; it's right next door.
Sergey Latyshev

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30 October 2025 08: 49

Peremoga

They are both not young, why would they meet for more than 90 minutes?
If we agreed, then the assistants will finish it.
If it's average, they'll finish it too.
If it's a complete screw-up, it will come to light soon.

in any case, they added some trump cards to their game.

But at least both are billionaires, essentially... IMHO, they have their own minds... and not a word about Russia...
1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
  
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  30 October 2025 10: 52
  
  Quote: Sergey Latyshev
  Peremoga
  
  They are both not young, why would they meet for more than 90 minutes?
  If we agreed, then the assistants will finish it.
  If it's average, they'll finish it too.
  If it's a complete screw-up, it will come to light soon.
  
  in any case, they added some trump cards to their game.
  
  But at least both are billionaires, essentially... IMHO, they have their own minds... and not a word about Russia...
  
  China's silence in this situation is golden. China's supply of drones and chips ("for washing machines") during the war in Ukraine is the same as the US's Lend-Lease military equipment supplies to the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. China isn't betraying Russia. Of course, China also benefits from the weakening of the Collective West through the war in Ukraine (by diverting Western military supplies to Taiwan).
2. Gennady1959
  
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  30 October 2025 11: 08
  
  Why should the Xi think about Russia and discuss it with Trump? For you, Russia is the center of the universe. For Xi, it's a raw materials appendage of Greater China and a buyer of all sorts of Kigai crap. Russia sells its resources cheaply and buys flip-flops, T-shirts, underwear, and the like at exorbitant prices. I'm sure the Xi secretly despises the Russians, Putin, who are incapable of getting their economy going, handing out strategic economic assets to some crooks they call oligarchs. How else can one feel about a country that supplies gas to 1/3 of the world, yet 35% of its citizens (40 million people) have no access to gas? Russians who, in three years of war with Ukraine, have managed to seize only 2% of Ukraine's territory (not counting the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics). There are no friends in politics, only interests. There is no betrayal in politics, only the ability to foresee. Only very stupid people apply patterns of interpersonal relationships (friendship, love, etc.) to political relationships.
  1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
    
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    30 October 2025 13: 24
    
    We'll seize even more land from Ukroreikh, don't worry.
  2. GN
    
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    30 October 2025 14: 29
    
    That's exactly it. Only brainless ultra-patriots fail to see the obvious. How the Kremlin gang is robbing the country and is no better than Zelinsky's gang! Roughnecks are just that: roughnecks.
obar64

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30 October 2025 09: 30

Trump is behaving like a "narcissistic baboon," yet his international tours are designed to encourage countries to pledge to invest in the US economy. And everyone already knows how Mr. Trump keeps his word. What's stopping countries from making promises and then, citing difficult circumstances, reneging on their promised financial investments in America?
borisvt

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30 October 2025 09: 48

..The Chinese leader also endorsed Trump's main campaign slogan about making "America great again."

That's right, I mean let him mess around there
Kiril

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30 October 2025 17: 57

And what did you do for that hour and a half - talk about the weather or say, "Look what a toy I have"?
AC130 Gunship

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30 October 2025 19: 39

Quote: Colonel Kudasov
There was no press conference following the meeting, which means it was a success for Russia)) Trump received a well-deserved rebuke and, out of frustration, began raving about resuming nuclear weapons testing.

Well, yes. Since there was no press conference, that clearly means Xi spent the entire 90 minutes praising his younger brother nonstop. Trump certainly agreed.
They have nothing else to talk about.