'Buy American' - What Trump wants from the Xi summit in China.

President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing for meetings with President Xi Jinping on May 14-15, 2026. In this two-part video series, analysts from Chatham House’s US and North America and Asia- Pacific programmes examine the key challenges facing both countries ahead of the summit, and what each side hopes to gain from the meeting. In this video, Laurel Rapp, Director of the US and North America Programme and Max Yoeli, Senior Research Fellow, discuss the summit from the US perspective. What will Washington hope to achieve on issues like trade, Iran, and fentanyl? Conversation hosted by Stephen Farrell. 🎦 Watch the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/jSiEfmvTMGE 🔗 More from Laurel Rapp here: https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/laurel-rapp 🔗 More from Max Yoeli here: https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/max-yoeli Register now for our upcoming event: 🔗 US at 250: Internationalism vs. isolationism – America’s enduring foreign policy debate https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/standard-event/us-250-internationalism-vs-isolationism-americas-enduring-foreign-policy