Trump hails meeting with Xi, says talks will lead to 'everlasting peace'

"My G2 meeting with President Xi of China was a great one for both of our countries. This meeting will lead to everlasting peace and success. God bless both China and the USA!" he wrote on Truth Social.

Notably, Trump once again used the term G2 to describe his talks with China. G2 is an informal term for a potential close US-China partnership, essentially a duumvirate, first proposed by American economists in 2005.

The idea was supported by the well-known American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the administration of the 44th US President, Democrat Barack Obama, attempted to implement it. However, Chinese party elites resisted, unwilling to share future global control with anyone else, leaving the concept "on paper."

On the night of October 29–30 Kyiv time, Trump and Xi met in Busan, South Korea. They announced a consensus and agreed to continue dialogue on resolving the war in Ukraine.

This was the first in-person meeting between Trump and Xi since 2019, when they last met during Trump's first term in the White House. The meeting lasted about 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Immediately afterward, Trump called the meeting "truly great" and rated it "12 out of 10." RBC-Ukraine outlines the main takeaways from the leaders' meeting.