Waiting For The Trump-Xi Jinping Meeting To Defuse The US-China Trade War That Shakes The World Market

US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 Japan Summit in Osaka on Saturday, June 29, 2019. (doc. White House-Shealah Craighead)

JAKARTA - President of the United States (US) Donald Trump on Wednesday, October 29, left for South Korea (South Korea). His planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping has been waiting to ease the heat of the US-China trade war.

Trump is scheduled for two days on top US ally South Korea to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC) in Gyeongju City, after visiting Malaysia and Japan.

Trump's visit was the third agenda from his trip to Asia that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi praised as a "peacemaker" given Trump's presence at the ASEAN 2025 Malaysia Summit.

However, the world's eyes remain on the Trump-Xi meeting scheduled for Thursday, October 30 tomorrow. If realized, it will be the first meeting since six years ago for the two leaders of the world's largest economies to sit down together.

The meeting was also considered to be able to determine whether the US and China stopped the trade wars between the two countries that had rocked the global market and panicked the international supply chain.

Negotiators from Beijing and Washington have confirmed that it has been structured a "resilient" ahead of the planned Trump-Xi meeting on the sidelines of the South Korean APEC 2025 Summit.

According to international relations analyst from the International Crisis Group, William Yang, the US is eager to reach any trade deal Trump can declare a win while China focuses on building more mutual trust, managing the longstanding differences, and strengthening bilateral trade relations'.

"It seems that there is a discrepancy in terms of the position of the two countries ahead of the Trump-Xi Summit," William was quoted as saying by AFP.