United States President Donald Trump is set to visit Beijing on Thursday for a historic meeting between the world leaders, the first on Chinese soil in nearly a decade. The 14 to 15 May meeting had originally been scheduled for March. However, US-Israeli strikes on Iran, which sparked the war in the Middle East, caused a delay in proceedings.

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