US President Donald Trump has called China's Xi Jinping a great leader and a friend as they kicked off two days of talks set to cover their fragile trade truce, the Iran war and US arms sales to Taiwan.

Trump is expected to ask China for assistance in resolving the Iran war, but analysts said he is unlikely to get the support he wants.

President Donald Trump has landed in Beijing for a highly anticipated presidential summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Trump is being accompanied on the trip by a group of executives from some of America’s most valuable companies. Trade will be at the forefront of discussions, and Trump is bringing more than a dozen chief executives with him to Beijing, including Apple’s Tim Cook and Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, who ran Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined Trump on the tarmac in Alaska for the second leg of the flight to China, NBC reported. On Thursday, Trump is scheduled to participate in a welcome ceremony and hold a bilateral meeting with Xi, before touring the historic Temple of Heaven and attending a state banquet. He will leave China on Friday, following tea and a working lunch with Xi. The high-stakes talks between the two leaders are expected to cover tariffs, rare earths, artificial intelligence, the Iran war and Taiwan. Experts are anticipating…

US President Donald Trump is travelling to Beijing, where he will be hosted by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. On the agenda are a series of issues that could cement the superiority of one over the…