Trump-Xi Summit: Trump to ask Xi to 'open up' China

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · May 13, 2026 · 503 words · By Kate Hairsine

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Trump-Xi Summit: Trump to ask Xi to 'open up' China Published May 13, 2026last updated May 13, 2026What you need to know - President Donald Trump has departed the US for China - Trump expected to land in the evening of May 13 and stay through May 15 - Trump…

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READ — Trump-Xi summit: High stakes for the US, China and the world After postponing his trip in March — having just recently launched the war with Iran — US President Donald Trump is set to visit China's leader Xi Jinping in Beijing at the end of the week.

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The meeting comes as the world faces an ongoing energy crisis due to the Strait of Hormuz blockadeand peace negotiations between Tehran and Washington seem to be deadlocked.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “After postponing his trip in March — having just recently launched the war with Iran”

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Web search results confirm that a trip slated for March 31-April 2 was postponed due to the start of a war with Iran.

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web search NEUTRAL — President Donald Trump's trip to China may not come with the same fanfare that accompanied his first-term visit.FILE - President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping participate in a welcome …
https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2026/05/10/iran-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Published On 10 May 202610 May 2026. Donald Trump is set to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday evening to discuss the Iran war and other issues with his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/10/trump-to-discuss-ir…

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web search NEUTRAL — President Trump’s trip to China — slated for March 31-April 2 — has been indefinitely postponed due to Trump starting a war with Iran, unleashing global uncertainty.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/opinion-trump-trip-china…

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Claim 2: “Trump says he will ask Xi in their meeting to 'open up' China”

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Web search results explicitly state that Trump says he will ask Xi in their meeting to 'open up' China.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 12 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is scheduled to make a state visit to China. This visit would be Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of international trips made by Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the president of China. Xi Jinping has made 56 international trips to 71 countries si…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_trips_ma…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, commonly abbreviated outside China as Xi Jinping Thought or Xi-ism, is a political doctrine created during the general secre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought

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Claim 3: “Trump posted on his Truth Social from Air Force One”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a Truth Social post from Air Force One.

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Claim 4: “the world faces an ongoing energy crisis due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade”

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Corroborated by The Hindu, TIME, and Wikipedia, stating that a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz since February 28, 2026, has caused a global energy crisis.

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web search NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis

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web search NEUTRAL — Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important energy transit routes, has caused a global oil shortage that is already affecting consumers from Europe to ...
https://time.com/article/2026/04/05/strait-of-hormuz-fuel-ra…

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web search NEUTRAL — The sudden closure of the Strait of Hormuz following coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran has triggered a systemic energy shock with global consequences. As tanker traffic collapses and oil prices…
https://atlasinstitute.org/the-strait-that-moves-the-market-…

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Claim 5: “Trump expected to land in the evening of May 13 and stay through May 15”

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Wikipedia explicitly states that from 12 to 15 May 2026, President Donald Trump is scheduled to make a state visit to China.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The religious views of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, have been a matter for discussion among observers and the American public. Trump was raised in his Scottish-born …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_religion

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_presidency_of_Donald_Tr…

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Claim 6: “Elon Musk, Jenson Huang accompanying Trump on Air Force One”

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Reported by TASS and other web sources that Elon Musk and Jensen Huang are accompanying Trump on Air Force One.

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web search NEUTRAL — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is traveling to China with President Donald Trump on Air Force One, a White House official said Tuesday, as the US leader heads to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Ji…
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-flies-to-china-with-…

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web search NEUTRAL — US President Donald Trump has departed for Beijing with SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang aboard Air Force One, Reuters reported, citing eyewitnesses and a White House representativ…
https://tass.com/world/2130093

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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, is now confirmed to accompany President Trump on his China visit along with Elon Musk, Tim Cook & other tech execs.US President Donald J Trump will visit China this week from…
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-boards-air-forc…

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Claim 7: “President Donald Trump has departed the US for China”

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Multiple independent sources, including Al Jazeera and Planet News, confirm that President Donald Trump departed for Beijing on Tuesday, May 12/13, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There has been significant academic and political debate about whether Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, can be considered a fascist according to consensus definitions of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_fascism

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The use of makeup and cosmetics by Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, has been a subject of media coverage since before his entry into electoral politics. He has been repo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makeup_of_Donald_Trump

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Claim 8: “US president is accompanied by US business leaders”

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Multiple sources (CBC News, Hal Turner Radio Show, and other web results) confirm Trump is traveling to China with a group of business and tech leaders.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 8 to 10 November 2017, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China with his wife, the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump. This was Trump's first stat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Trump Mobile is an American mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) owned by T1 Mobile that uses a licensed brand from The Trump Organization. It was founded on June 16, 2025, by Donald Trump Jr. and E…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Mobile

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Claim 9: “These leaders include: Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Apple's Tim Cook, Tesla and SpaceX's Elon Musk, Kelly Ortberg from Boeing, Brian Sikes from Cargill, Citi's Jane Fraser, H. Lawrence Culp, GE Aerospace, David Solomon, Goldman Sachs, Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra, Meta's President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick”

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Multiple web sources list the specific business leaders accompanying Trump, including Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Kelly Ortberg, Brian Sikes, Jane Fraser, and Dina Powell McCormick.

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump is expected to bring 17 top US business leaders on his trip to China this week, including Tim Cook, Elon Musk and Larry Fink. Executives from Apple, Tesla, SpaceX, Meta, Visa, JPMorgan Chase and…
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/05/11/top-bus…

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web search NEUTRAL — In addition to Musk, Cook and Fink, the full list of the executives set to join Trump as part of the official US delegation to China is as follows: Dina Powell McCormick, president and vice chair of M…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yx757w048o

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web search NEUTRAL — Also present will be the outgoing leader of Apple, Tim Cook, just weeks after announcing his upcoming departure.With them, Kelly Ortberg from Boeing; Brian Sikes from Cargill. Jane Fraser from Citi. J…
https://www.mundoamerica.com/news/2026/05/12/6a02f5d6e85eceb…

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Claim 10: “Trump told reporters as he departed the White House on Tuesday. 'We're the two superpowers... China's considered second.'”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the specific quote about superpowers and military strength given to reporters on Tuesday.

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