The core goal of the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping was clear enough: bring the temperature down and strike some agreements that would stabilise one of the world’s most important bilateral relationships.

And then, at their summit meeting in South Korea on Thursday, both countries’ leaders took a step back from the brink of the economic “decoupling” that many analysts have forecast for nearly a decade.

We are going to have a very successful meeting, I have no doubt,' Trump said ahead of his meeting with Xi Jinping

In our news wrap Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cut its topline interest rate by a quarter-point for the second time this year, President Trump is due to meet China's Xi Jinping on the last leg of his Asian tour,

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump held a landmark meeting in South Korea that could reset the volatile relationship between the world’s two largest economies and rival superpowers.