China-US talks

China-US talks

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stands for a photograph with Asean Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn during their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, 24 October 2025. Photo: REUTERS

What to expect from Southeast Asian leaders' summit as Trump attends

Trump is scheduled to join the Asean leaders' meeting, which begins on Sunday (26 October)

Yang Jiechi, director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office for China, addresses the U.S. delegation at the opening session of U.S.-China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. March 18, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/Pool via REUTERS

Quips on translators offer brief moment of levity in China-US talks