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Trade and Iran war are on the agenda for Trump's state visit to China

NPR | By Tamara Keith

Published May 11, 2026 at 5:22 PM EDT

President Trump meets with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing with a trade truce and the Iran war on the agenda.

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Tamara Keith

Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.

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