President Trump is in Beijing for a state visit to America’s chief global competitor, and increasingly, its chief geopolitical rival. Trump has long targeted China as an economic foe of the U.S. while cultivating a relationship with President Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Nick Schifrin reports from Beijing.
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Nick Schifrin is PBS News Hour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent and serves as the host of Compass Points from PBS News.
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Zeba Warsi is a foreign affairs producer, based in Washington DC. She's a Columbia Journalism School graduate with an M.A. in Political journalism. She was one of the leading members of the NewsHour team that won the 2024 Peabody award for News for our coverage of the war in Gaza and Israel.
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