From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

For the first time in nearly a decade, President Trump will meet with China's president

Xi Jinping in Beijing. The meeting comes as Trump struggles struggles to extract himself from the war with Iran and must

now face off against China, the biggest threat to the U.S.'s dominance on everything from

technology to trade.

Today, my colleague David Sanger explains what's likely to come of this meeting, and more

pressingly, what will not.

It's Wednesday, May 13th.

Hey, guys. Can you hear me?

David, we can hear you. Where are you right now?

Good, good, good. I'm in my hotel in Beijing.

I just arrived with several of my Washington Bureau colleagues, and we are all preparing for the president

arriving for his first trip to China in the second term. He'll get in on Wednesday night

and meet Xi Jinping the next morning and part of Friday before he just turns around and goes right back home.

Okay, so now that you're in Beijing, can you set the scene for us a little bit, David?

Like, what is the significance of this meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping?

Well, as initially conceived, Rachel, this was going to be the first of a series of meetings this year

in an effort by the president to have something of a rapproch

mile with the Chinese after many, many years of tension.

The last time the president was here was 2017, and it was a very different situation.

Music And it was a very different situation. The president was treated with all the pageantry that the Chinese do very well.

President Xi, I want to thank you for that incredible welcoming ceremony. He had just been elected president to the surprise of China and the world and perhaps himself.

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