Review of Xi Jinping's 5 visits to the U.S. since 2013
A review of Xi Jinping's visits to the U.S.: sorting out how head-of-state diplomacy has guided China-U.S. relations forward steadily Focusing on 5 key meetings and achievements across multiple fields, to understand the latest developments in bilateral interactions
According to a report by the China News Service WeChat public account, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25. This will be his sixth trip to the U.S. since 2013. The article reviews the previous five visits to the U.S. or trips to the U.S. to attend events, focusing on the guiding role that interactions between the Chinese and U.S. leaders have played at different stages in bilateral relations.
The review shows that since 2013, Xi Jinping has met with Obama at Annenberg Estate in California; paid a state visit to the United States in 2015 and attended a series of summits marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations; traveled to the U.S. in 2016 to attend the Fourth Nuclear Security Summit and meet with Obama; met with Trump at MaraLago in Florida in 2017 at his invitation; and again traveled to San Francisco in 2023 for a ChinaU.S. leaders' meeting and to attend the APEC Informal Leaders' Meeting.
The article points out that these headofstate diplomatic activities have repeatedly provided direction for the stable development of ChinaU.S. relations at critical junctures, and have produced a series of outcomes in areas such as trade and economics, climate change, nuclear security, antidrug efforts, artificial intelligence, and peopletopeople exchanges.