Secretary of State Marco Rubio says "walking away from Taiwan" is not on the agenda for this week's talks in South Korea between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Newsweek reached out to the White House and to the Chinese Foreign Ministry via email for comment outside of regular office hours.

President Trump arrives in Tokyo for historic meetings with Japan's first female prime minister and Emperor Naruhito before high-stakes China summit this week.

I T IS THE start of the most important week of diplomacy for Donald Trump since he returned to office. A meeting between the American president and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, is planned for October 30th and comes after Mr Trump’s whistlestop tour of many of his country’s most important Asian allies.

Trump & Xi Jinping agree substantial framework to avert Nov 1 100% tariffs. China delays rare earth curbs & restarts huge US soybean purchases.

Xi Jinping has adopted a playbook for dealing with President Trump that sees the Chinese leader offering concessions but also hitting back harder. Lingling Wei, chief China correspondent, discusses how that has played out so far,

Mr Xi is firmly in charge, and unabashed about showing the party and the world that he will dump anyone deemed to be a bad actor. It was unclear what, exactly, the purged officials had done to deserve their punishment.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five years.

Case in point: CBC reports Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with China's Xi Jinping this week, "hoping for a relations reset." Carney is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea this week and confirmed the meeting ...