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.

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.

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,

Global companies have a long list of concerns around the U.S.-China trade war. They will closely monitor President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping's expected meeting in South Korea on Thursday,

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

The interactions and mutual respect between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump have become the “most valuable strategic asset” in bilateral ties, the country’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday. Wang told this to US State Secretary Marco Rubio during a phone conversation, ahead of a summit between Xi and Trump.

Trump visited Beijing as U.S. president in November 2017. Xi had visited the U.S. in April of that same year, when the two leaders met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. At the time, a White House spokesperson said the Chinese delegation had requested Mar-a-Lago as the venue for the meeting.

President Trump's closely-watched summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping is set for this Thursday in South Korea with increasing expectations after the weekend of advance talks have resulted in an environment that both sides say could be conducive to compromise.