The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that Beijing expects President Donald Trump to visit from May 13 to 15, spending much of that time in personal exchanges with genocidal dictator Xi Jinping. The Chinese Communist Party rarely confirms visits by foreign leaders in advance, choosing to wait as late as possible to confirm their visits or, in some cases, their arrivals in real time. President Trump had initially scheduled his visit to China for April, however, and pushed it forward a month as Operation Epic Fury, initially described as a short-term operation to limit the Iranian government’s ability to engage in international terrorism, extended for weeks with no surrender from Tehran.
The Iran war is expected to be a major topic of conversation in China, as Xi Jinping is one of the Iranian regime’s closest allies. China is the world’s most prolific buyer of Iranian oil and has been accused of sharing military technology with Tehran. Iran is also a member of BRICS, an anti-American security and economic coalition largely believed to be led by China. BRICS has essentially become irrelevant to geopolitics, however, as Iran responded to Operation Epic Fury in part by bombing a fellow BRICS member country, the United Arab Emirates. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters on Monday that China considered engagement at a personal level between Xi and Trump “irreplaceable” in the management of the bilateral relationship. “The two presidents will yet again meet each other in person since their Busan meeting last October,” he observed. “This will be the first visit to China by a U.S. president in almost nine years. President Xi will have in-depth exchanges of views with President Trump on major issues concerning China-U.S. relations and world peace and development.”
