President Donald Trump heads to Asia on Friday for the first time this term, a trip where he’s expected to work on investment deals and peace efforts before meeting face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to deescalate a trade war.

Trump's Asia summit tour includes meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other regional leaders as trade tensions with Beijing escalate.

Hi, this is Philip Glamann in Beijing, where the questions on everyone’s minds are whether Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump will actually meet next week and if they do, what will come of their talks.

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Trump’s uncertainty over a planned Xi Jinping meeting caused Bitcoin to drop before rebounding toward the $113,000 level.

No one can agree on what a likely meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will mean for China’s sputtering stock market.

As the two leaders prepare for rare meeting, analysts doubt US leader’s intuition can sway China’s calculated strategist.

D ONALD TRUMP rarely passes up an opportunity to praise Xi Jinping. Over the years, Mr Trump has regularly buttered up China’s leader, calling him “brilliant”, “perfect” and “fierce”, and averring that “there’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy.”