Trump meets Xi: Chinese leader praises president for peace efforts — hours after nuclear test bombshell

Published October 29, 2025 10:51pm ET



President Donald Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, just a short time after he announced on social media that the United States would restart nuclear weapons testing.

In Trump’s nuclear weapons statement, he noted that China “is a distant third” in nuclear weapons but will be even with the U.S. alongside Russia “within 5 years.”

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