Venezuela

Caracas, Friday, September 25, 2026. From Caracas, the independent press details the cordial staging deployed by Donald Trump to receive Xi Jinping at the White House, Thursday, September 24, 2026, after more than three hours of closed-door talks in the Oval Office. "Gran reunión. Gracias," Trump said to the press as he greeted his Chinese counterpart around 1:30 p.m. local time on the steps of the West Wing, reports Efecto Cocuyo. Before parting ways, the American president gave Xi a tour of the presidential residence's gardens, showing him the new heliport and the construction of a large ballroom, jokingly calling him an "expert in stone [...] who loves good granite," without Xi responding to journalists.

The visit, which began at 10:00 a.m. local time with a military ceremony, marks Xi Jinping's first state visit to the White House since 2015, under the Obama presidency, and the second face-to-face meeting between the two leaders this year, after Trump's trip to Beijing in May. A state dinner awaited Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan that evening, hosted by Trump and Melania Trump, while the two first ladies visited the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art during the day.

El Nacional situates the real stake of the summit beyond protocol: a bilateral summit focused on the trade truce, Iran, Taiwan, and artificial intelligence. On the latter point, Trump stated that China and the United States "oppose" together the new regulations on AI, promising that the subject "will be a major theme" of discussion and presenting the US Department of Justice as his own "barrier of contention." However, no numerical announcement accompanies this claimed convergence on trade, Taiwan, or rare earths.

For the Venezuelan press, the image of a red carpet and a displayed understanding between Washington and Beijing contrasts with the absence of any concrete commitment on AI, left in the state of a statement of intention rather than a common framework between the two powers.