Trump to head to China for high-stakes talks with Xi – US politics live

Meeting comes amid tentative trade truce but Iran, Taiwan and tensions over global supply chains will be complicating factors

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Donald Trump has announced on Truth Social that Cuba was asking for help and “we are going to talk”, without elaborating further.

He wrote: “No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and only heading in one direction – down! Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!! In the meantime, I’m off to China!”