President Trump had the final round of talks with his Chinese counterpart at Zhongnanhai Garden on 15th May morning.
During an interview President Trump maintained that: “China was really taking advantage of the US…Now we do great with China”.
Taking to the Truth Social Trump on Friday (15th May, 2026) Trump attempted to decipher what Xi meant by calling US a declining nation: “When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct.
“Our Country suffered immeasurably with open borders, high taxes, transgender for everybody, men in women’s sports, DEI, horrible trade deals, rampant crime, and so much more!
“President Xi was not referring to the incredible rise that the United States has displayed to the world during the 16 spectacular months of the Trump Administration, which includes all-time high stock markets and 401K’s, military victory and thriving relationship in Venezuela, the military decimation of Iran (to be continued!)
” — Strongest military on earth by far, economic powerhouse again, with a record 18 trillion dollars being invested into the United States by others, best U.S. job market in history, with more people working in the United States right now than ever before, ending country destroying DEI, and so many other things that it would be impossible to readily list. In fact, President Xi congratulated me on so many tremendous successes in such a short period of time.
Two years ago, we were, in fact, a Nation in decline. On that, I fully agree with President Xi! But now, the United States is the hottest Nation anywhere in the world, and hopefully our relationship with China will be stronger and better than ever before!
At the welcoming banquet, held here on 14th May, Donald Trump said: “The relationship between the American and Chinese people goes all the way back to America’s founding… two and a half centuries later, that first connection has grown into one of the most consequential relationships in world history.”
