President Donald Trump landed this Wednesday in Beijing at 7:50 PM local time (11:50 GMT) to develop until the pro Next Friday, a state visit to China, his second to the Asian country since the one he made in 2017 during his first term.

Trump, who is traveling accompanied by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and a delegation of senior American executives such as Elon Musk (Tesla), Jensen Huang (Nvidia) or Tim Cook (Apple) ), will meet this Thursday with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in a visit marked by the trade truce between both powers, technological tensions, Taiwan and the war in Iran.

The American president was received at the runway by the Chinese vice-president, Han Zheng, along with the Chinese ambassador in the United States, Xie Feng, and the vicemini Chinese Outdoor stro, Ma Zhaoxu, in a welcome ceremony in which about 300 young Chinese participated, in addition to a military band and an honor guard.

Trump descended from Air Force One at 20:08 local time (12:08 GMT) and raised his fist at the cameras while the military band played before addressing the official motorcade.

Behind the president descended his son Eric Trump and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, followed by Musk, Rubio and Huang, members of the American delegation accompanying the president on the visit.

The route from the airport to downtown Beijing was decorated with flags of China and the United States, while several skyscrapers displayed mens luminous welcome signs to the Chinese capital at the passage of the presidential caravan, which arrived at Trump's hotel around 8:38 local time (12:38 GMT).

More than two million viewers followed this live this Wednesday on CCTV -the main Chinese state television network- the landing of Air Force One in Beijing.

Trump's arrival also dominated Chinese social media, where topics related to his visit occupied five of the top-ten trends on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of platform X,this Wednesday.

The tag ‘Trump arrives to Beijing’ accumulated more than 8.3 million views and about 26,000 comments on the platform within a few minutes of landing.

The most prominent comments on Weibo were dominated by messages of welcome and calls for a “stable” and “mutually beneficial” relationship between both powers, in line with the usual rhetoric of the Chinese government on relations with the United States.

In just two days, Trump will face a concentrated agenda that will include bilateral meetings with Xi, a state dinner, and protocol activities. ias in emblematic spaces of Chinese power such as the Great People's Palace and Zhongnanhai, headquarters of the dome of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP).

The visit occurs nine years after Trump's previous trip to China, in November 2017, when he participated with Xi in events in the Forbidden City of Beijing.

Both parties are now seeking to consolidate the trade truce reached after months of tariff war, although disputes persist over technology, rare earths, and access to the Chinese market.

Before their arrival in Beijing, delegations led by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Prime Minister He Lifeng held this Wednesday in Seoul “constructive” economic consultations to advance the resolution of its tariff tensions, said the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Before departing to Beijing, Trump announced that he will address with Xi the situation of Taiwan -self-governed island to which Washington sells weapons and Beijing n does not rule out invading- and war in Iran, while Washington puts pressure on China to contribute to favoring a de-escalation in the Middle East.

Hours before the US president's landing, the Chinese government urged this Wednesday to the US to “handle prudently” the Taiwan issue and to “stop” the shipping of weapons to the island. For his part, the Republican leader said that he will ask China to “open” the country to US companies. EFE