President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trade truce avoids an open rupture in US China trade relations but analysts say it’s more of a de-escalation than progress.

But on Thursday, Mr Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached an agreement. It amounts to China buying 12 million metric tons of soybeans this year, and at least 25 million metric tons over each of the next three years. That would ultimately return purchasing volume to the levels seen prior to the trade war.

Trump announced a cut on Chinese imports after meeting with Xi in South Korea, citing new understandings on fentanyl enforcement, farm trade and rare-earth exports.

If there was something of an emerging consensus, it was that Trump has been willing to confront China on trade and economic issues — though through its effective weaponization of rare earth mineral supply chains,

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Chinese President Xi Jinping offered these words to President Trump before their private meeting on Thursday in South Korea: PRESIDENT XI JINPING (through translator): President Trump, it is a great pleasure for me as well to meet you.

China and Saudi Arabia concluded the “Blue Sword-2025” exercise, which lasted roughly two weeks in October, at the King Abdulaziz Naval Base in Jubail, according to both defense ministries. The joint naval warfare exercise featured counterterrorism, maritime rescue, anti-hijacking, and tactical shooting drills.

President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping have begun what is expected to be three to four hours of high-stakes ,in-person talks in hopes of lowering the temperature of a simmering trade war that has threatened to boil over and upend the global economy.