Trump revealed that China will announce the purchase of 200 commercial planes from Boeing, whose leader, Kelly Ortberg, was part of the North American business delegation to China
US President Donald Trump said that China agreed to buy oil, Boeing planes and soybeans from the United States, after meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Thursday.
“One thing I think we will reach an agreement on is that they agreed to buy oil from the United States,” declared the Republican, in an interview with US broadcaster Fox News.
“Go to Texas. We’re going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas, Louisiana and Alaska… that’s very important,” Trump added during the interview, in which he did not provide specific details about the commitments discussed with Xi.
The North American president also stated that China will “invest a lot in soybeans” and that Chinese purchases of this grain, essential for farmers in the Midwest of the United States, will be “larger than before”.
Trump also revealed that China will announce the purchase of 200 commercial planes from Boeing, whose leader, Kelly Ortberg, was part of the North American business delegation to China.
“Xi agreed to buy 200 planes. This is big; it’s 200 big planes. This is going to create a lot of jobs, and Boeing wanted 150, and it was 200,” Trump said, despite expectations from Ortberg and market analysts pointing to 500 planes.
The leaders of the world’s two biggest powers meet again today, before Trump leaves Beijing in the afternoon to return to the United States.
The American president will have lunch with the Chinese leader around noon (5am in Lisbon) in Zhongnanhai, the complex located next to the Forbidden City and home to some of the Chinese leadership’s activities.
The complex, which counted Mao Zedong among its most famous residents, has historically been associated with high-level meetings between Chinese leaders and external dignitaries.
However, the entry of foreign leaders is relatively rare and, therefore, generally interpreted as a gesture of political and diplomatic proximity.
This state visit, which will last less than 48 hours, is Trump’s second to China since his trip in 2017, during the Republican’s first presidential term, and the first since he returned to the White House in January 2025.
On Thursday, the American president said he had received availability from Xi Jinping to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has been under Iranian blockade for six weeks.
“President Xi would like to see a deal. He said, ‘If I can help in any way, I’ll be happy to help,'” said Trump, also speaking to US broadcaster Fox News.
China is the main importing country of Iranian oil and a partner of Tehran, which has placed the Strait of Hormuz under military threat since the first days of the war, launched by the United States and Israel on February 28.
