On June 19, U.S. President Trump, speaking at a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for the addition of a Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar to the Air Force One fleet, said he would visit Turkey this year and would also travel again to China — noting that “Xi is coming here in September, but we’re also going back for an important meeting in China.” This is Trump’s first public announcement of another trip to China since his state visit from May 13 to 15, when he met with Xi Jinping in Beijing. During the May visit, the two sides agreed to build a “strategically stable, constructive U.S.-China relationship” and reached a series of arrangements on tariff levels, rare earth exports, and agricultural purchases. Trump did not disclose a specific timeline for Turkey, and Turkish officials have not yet made an official statement on the visit.
Regarding the background of the China visit, after returning to Warsaw, Trump announced via Truth Social that he had accepted Xi Jinping’s invitation, leading to his historic return trip this May — the first by a U.S. president since his initial state visit to China in 2017. If Xi visits the U.S. in September as scheduled, along with Trump’s trip to China this year for a “large conference” (possibly the APEC summit or a G20 multilateral meeting), the top leaders of the U.S. and China will hold two face-to-face summits within 2026, a frequency rarely seen in recent years, which markets see as a positive sign of a temporary stabilization in bilateral relations.