In Washington, President Trump said he was ready to meet Xi Jinping, chief leader in China.
In Beijing, Chinese officials and experts agree that the meeting between the heads of state must precede any wide re -seizure of relations with the United States amid Mr. Trump’s aggressive approach to trade and foreign policy.
But the arrangement of a meeting already proves slow and difficult.
One of the main goals of his journey was the basis for a presidential summit, said Senator Steve Denz, the Republican Montana, who came to Beijing this month as an informal actor of Mr. Trump, said one of the main goals of his journey is to set the foundation for a presidential summit. After interviewing the Chinese Deputy Prime Minister of Economic Policy, Living, Mr. Denz said in an interview that he believed that the summit would be held by the end of the year – a slower frequency of what many expected in Washington.
On the Chinese side, the Communist Party officials and government advisers said in the last week that they were surprised by the rapid movements of Mr. Trump on the tariff, Greenland, Ukraine and other issues. He was amazed by his hostile treatment in the general places of foreign leaders such as President Voludmir Zelensky from Ukraine. As a result, they are careful in scheduling the summit.
Tensions between Beijing and Washington can worsen this week, when a new group of Mr. Trump’s tariff is largely valid on trade.
Chinese officials are refrained from setting a date for a summit so that the two sides negotiate the details in advance, including the deal between the two countries that will carry the rest of the period of Mr. Trump. The Trump administration has not yet determined what it might have an acceptable deal.
“The Chinese side believes that the Trump administration has not really discovered what is the way to deal with China and conclude a deal,” said Wu Shinbo, Dean of the Institute of International Studies at the University of Vodan in Shanghai.
“The Chinese side would like to wait for a more constructive and reasonable signal,” said Mr. Wu, who was part of an informal delegation to retired Chinese officials and academic advisers who met with American officials and experts last month in the United States.
Two other Chinese experts have been familiar with discussions between the United States and China that the two leaders will meet in New York City soon from the United Nations General Assembly in September. But it is still unclear whether their governments can make sufficient progress by that time, as experts, who were not allowed to comment.
In a fax response to questions about the potential time of the summit, the office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said that he “has no information to issue at this time.”
The master made a video call on Wednesday with Jamieson Greer, the representative of trade in the United States. The master expressed his concern about Mr. Trump’s imposition of two rounds of 10 percent of the tariffs on Chinese goods so far this year, according to a Chinese statement after the meeting.
China has already averaged by the initial tariff of Mr. Trump on Chinese goods by imposing an additional tariff on American fossil fuel imports and agricultural products.
The Senator Denz’s journey was the second visit in the Congress of China more than five years ago. While members of Congress usually travel in groups to foreign countries, any Senators or other representatives have chosen to accompany Mr. Denz to Beijing.
Beijing did not reward the American side to communicate Mr. Denz. In an unannounced step on March 16, China, the world’s largest cow meat importer, stopped from all imports of American beef. Previously, he buys one billion dollars annually from American beef, and many of them are from Mr. Denz.
Beijing granted five years licenses in March 2020 to several hundreds of American slaughterhouses to export beef to China. This came after years of intermittent interruptions in shipments due to commercial frictions and alleged fears of China about cow’s madness in the United States, although international animal health experts found that beef was safe. The manufacture of beef in China has long opposed imports.
The export licenses expired recently closed the Chinese market, as shipments fell to 54 tons per week after the licenses ended, from about 2000 tons per week.
Beijing’s decision not to renew the slaughterhouse licenses put pressure on Mr. Denz.
“The effects of this decision on livestock breeders in the United States cannot be exaggerated, which is why I raised this issue directly with Deputy Prime Minister Loveng,” said Mr. Denz.
The Office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said it was “unaware” to the slaughterhouse license.