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Trump to greet Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews

US president to personally receive Chinese counterpart on tarmac in rare diplomatic gesture

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Trump to greet Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews

What this story says

  • US President Donald Trump will personally greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.
  • Xi Jinping is expected to land at Joint Base Andrews around 4:00 p.m. local time on September 23.
  • Trump will attend Xi's arrival ceremony at Andrews, a rare honour for visiting heads of state.
  • The visit is expected to include bilateral meetings and a state dinner.

Who covered it

Left 25%(38)Centre 45%(71)Right 30%(46)

Percentages are shares of the 155 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 112 of the 267 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

61/100

Hype

41/100

267 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 38 of the 155 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

US President Donald Trump will personally greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. Xi Jinping is expected to land at Joint Base Andrews around 4:00 p.m. local time on September 23. Trump will attend Xi's arrival ceremony at Andrews. This is a rare airport reception for visiting heads of state. The visit is expected to include bilateral meetings and a state dinner.

Disagreement on Xi's arrival date

While most reports state Xi Jinping is expected to land on September 23, Radio-Canada reports the arrival will be on September 24.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention the expected time of Xi Jinping's arrival. None of the centre-rated digests mention the specific time of arrival. None of the left-rated digests mention the specific time of arrival.

Tags:#DonaldTrump#XiJinping#USChinaRelations#Diplomacy#StateVisit

Coverage settled. We checked this 40 times and stopped on 23 Sept 2026, 01:15. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

38 rated outlets

  • Left-rated outlets led on the detail that Donald Trump would personally greet Xi Jinping upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews. This was described as a rare honour for a visiting head of state. Radio Canada also reported that Trump would meet Xi at the plane's descent.
  • Radio Canada, which published a full report, included analysis from experts. Judith Shapiro described the visit as a pantomime to maintain appearances, while Jonathan Czin predicted it would focus on the leaders' relationship rather than policy substance.
  • Several left-rated outlets noted the visit was the first state visit by a Chinese leader in over a decade. They also mentioned that high-stakes talks were planned at the White House.

Centre

71 rated outlets

  • The centre-rated reports from South China Morning Post, The Hill, and ANSA all led with the rare nature of the airport reception. South China Morning Post's digest stated that Xi would receive what Trump did not in Beijing, referencing a presidential airport welcome. The Hill's digest noted that Xi's arrival would kick off his state visit, which would include bilateral meetings and a state dinner. ANSA's digest also highlighted the airport welcome as a rare reception reserved for Xi, citing a White House official.

Right

46 rated outlets

  • The right-rated reports from Yonhap News Agency, Clarin, La Nacion, India Today, and Le Figaro all focused on the rare honour of Trump personally receiving Xi Jinping at the airport. Yonhap News Agency's digest stated Trump would personally welcome Xi upon arrival for the US-China summit. Clarin and La Nacion's digests both used the phrase 'rare honor of receiving him at the foot of his plane'. India Today's digest framed it as a 'rare diplomatic gesture' that precedes talks overshadowed by trade, Taiwan, Iran, and AI. Le Figaro's digest mentioned a ceremony of arrival in the presence of the US President at Andrews Airbase, where the Chinese presidential plane was expected around 4:00 p.m. local time.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Trump to greet Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews?
Of the 155 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 25% are rated left, 45% are rated centre, 30% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 267. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Trump to greet Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 155 rated outlets on this story, 25% are rated left, 45% are rated centre, 30% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Trump to greet Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews biased?
Trump to greet Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews is one event reported by 267 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Trump to greet Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Trump to greet Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews?
267 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
When is Xi Jinping expected to arrive in the US?
Xi Jinping is expected to land at Joint Base Andrews around 4:00 p.m. local time on September 23. Radio-Canada, however, reported the arrival date as September 24.
What is unusual about this reception?
US President Donald Trump will personally greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. This is described as a rare airport reception, as Trump typically receives visiting heads of state at the White House.
What events are planned during Xi Jinping's visit?
The visit is expected to include bilateral meetings between the two leaders and a state dinner. The reception at Andrews Air Force Base precedes these events.

Read it at the source

271 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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Right

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