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Trump Participates in a State Banquet with the President of the People's Republic of China, May 14, 2026

May 14, 2026 · The White House · 0:23:27

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What happened

President Donald Trump participated in a state banquet hosted by President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14, 2026, during his state visit to China. In his toast, Xi welcomed the President and the U.S. delegation and framed the year: it marks the start of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan and the 250th anniversary of American independence. “The people of China and the United States are both great peoples,” he said. “Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand. We can help each other succeed.”

Xi recalled that 55 years earlier President Nixon had sent Henry Kissinger to China and ping-pong diplomacy had opened a door “frozen for over 20 years,” and said the two presidents had that day held in-depth exchanges: “We both believe that the China-US relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. We must make it work and never mess it up. Both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals.” He said they had agreed to build “a constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability,” and closed with a toast to both countries’ prosperity and “the friendship between the two peoples.”

Why it matters

The banquet toast is the ceremonial statement of the May 2026 Beijing summit — the visit at the center of this chronicle’s China thread — in the host’s own words: partnership over rivalry, with the bilateral meeting and the Air Force One readout of the same trip recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub alongside it.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a State Banquet with the President of the People’s Republic of China,” Beijing, China, May 14, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by President Xi Jinping in his toast, in the broadcast’s English interpretation.