Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump to Meet Amid Rising Tensions

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Michael Krasny

Apr 4, 2017 at

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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a welcome ceremony with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic (not pictured) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 30, 2017. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)

On Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with President Donald Trump at his estate in Florida. The summit comes amid tense relations between the two nations over differing strategies toward North Korea, China’s military presence on islands in the South China Sea and Trump’s repeated criticism of China’s trade policy. In this hour of Forum, we’ll preview President Xi’s visit and discuss the current state of U.S.-China relations.

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Guests:

Orville Schell, director, Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City

Anna Han, associate professor of law, Santa Clara University School of Law

Susan Shirk, chair, 21st Century China Center, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego

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