Trump says China meeting with Xi benefits US farmers
Officials are finalizing a narrower US-China trade deal due Monday, following a run of upbeat statements from both leaders.
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UpdateFriday, September 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET
Trump says he will meet Xi again in November in China, then at the G20 in December in Miami, Florida. He said much has been and will be accomplished.
UpdateFriday, September 25, 2026 at 12:15 PM ET
US Trade Representative Jamie Greer said the US and China are in what he called a managed trade situation, with progress made on a subset of goods and details due Monday. He said export controls and national security are off the table for now in talks with China. Trump said Xi appeared to like calling artificial intelligence "super intelligence" and that tremendous things were set to happen between the two countries. Xi said the US and China should seek new approaches for major countries to coexist.
UpdateFriday, September 25, 2026 at 12:10 PM ET
Trump called the visit "tremendous" and said the two countries have made great strides that are positive for both sides. He earlier described the meeting as very productive and said Xi seemed to like the term "super intelligence." US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer described the countries as being in a "managed trade situation," with terms due Monday. He said export controls and security issues are being kept out of the China trade talks, and that the two sides have reached a deal on a subset of goods, including tariff exemptions on farm, medical and low-tech goods.
President Trump says his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping was great and will benefit American farmers.
Officials are finalizing a narrower trade deal that is due Monday. Trump said he and Xi made great strides during the visit.
Xi called his US trip very successful and said it added new substance to the US-China relationship, pointing to a brighter future between the two countries. He said the two leaders had candid talks and reached consensus on many issues. Trade exemptions and a mechanism for handling AI-related crises have emerged as concrete, if modest, outcomes of the visit.
The farmer callout matters because agricultural tariffs sat at the center of earlier US-China friction, and the comment points to possible relief on trade terms that have weighed on that constituency. Coming amid an extended trade truce and repeated statements from both sides about mutual gains, the remarks add to a run of positive signals that lean bullish for equities tied to normalized US-China relations and for farm-linked sectors.