'Putin was here': Xi Jinping taunts Trump on exclusive garden tour in China

Donald Trump has pushed back on claims made by Xi Jinping that America is a “declining nation”. The US president accepted that “tremendous damage” had been done to the US in recent years but blamed his predecessor Joe Biden. “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,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social ahead of the second day of talks. Mr Trump added that the US had demonstrated in Iran that it was the it had the “strongest military on earth, by far”, adding: “Two years ago we were, in fact, a Nation in decline. On that I fully agree with President Xi! But now the United States in the hottest nation on anywhere in the world.” Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/15/trump-china-visit-latest-xi-iran-war-taiwan/ #trump #xi #china ► Sign up to the Telegraph's free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secure/newsletter/from-the-editor/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain ► Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain ► Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/subscription/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ and https://www.youtube.com/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.