Donald Trump's May 13-15 state visit to China was officially announced by Beijing, marking the first US presidential trip to China in nearly a decade and pulling Iran, Taiwan and trade into the same room. The visit will test a fragile tariff truce, the BBC reported, with Channel News Asia carrying the dates direct from the Chinese government's own statement.
What's actually on the agenda? Three pressure points — Tehran, Taiwan and trade — will define the substance of the meeting, the Guardian reported across three separate pieces on the summit's run-up. The Iran ceasefire situation feeds directly into the trade conversation through energy pricing and the Strait of Hormuz, while Taiwan sits as a permanent structural item Beijing presses on every US presidential visit.
Who is travelling with Trump? 
Elon Musk and Tim Cook are among the CEOs expected to accompany the delegation, the BBC reported, signalling a tech-heavy posture. The composition reads as a deliberate counter to the symbolic asymmetry Tisdall flagged in the Guardian, where he wrote that Trump arrives in Beijing knowing that 
Xi holds the cards on the host's home turf.
How is Taipei reacting? Taiwanese civilians are flocking to self-defence courses ahead of the summit, Al Jazeera reported in a video piece on the ground in Taipei, amid concerns Beijing could eventually use force to seize the island. PBS examined what Taipei could realistically gain from a meeting where it is not at the table — the best-case scenario being explicit US reaffirmations rather than any negotiated concession. The summit's structural shape — Trump-Xi bilateral, no Taiwan seat — defines what kind of language can emerge for Taipei to read against in the days after.
Figures referenced: Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, Elon Musk. — JudgeMarket.
