Trump and Xi held White House talks, with Trump citing security and AI cooperation and Xi promising pandas. The meeting ended with Trump calling it very good, while Xi urged Washington to oppose Taiwan independence and handle Taiwan carefully, alongside discussion of AI governance and trade. At the evening dinner Trump called China a WWII ally and presented a bald-eagle statue, and Xi replied that both peoples had resisted Japanese militarist invaders, urging limits on rivalry and human control of AI.
Japanese papers read the cordiality as thin on substance and a risk, noting Beijing's use of anti-Japanese history to press its Taiwan line. Prime Minister Takaichi countered that Japan and the United States had reconciled into strong allies, with the government calling the outcome within expectations but disputing the ally language.
At home attention stayed on the Typhoon No.25 aftermath and Typhoon No.26 nearing Okinawa.