Trade deliverables, Taiwan push and ‘strategic stability’: key Xi-Trump takeaways overall

Chinese leader’s whirlwind US state visit rich in pageantry sees American president pull out all the stops

They also attended a state dinner in Xi’s honour with top business leaders, held a tea meeting and visited the National Archives. Here are the key takeaways.

Deliverables on trade

Both sides also finalised the Board of Trade mechanism and are set to announce non-sensitive sectors and products capped at US$30 billion each for tariff reduction.

US trade chief Jamieson Greer told CNBC on Friday that Washington and Beijing had reached an agreement on a slice of “managed trade” and that more of it would be published on Monday.