The World Today with Maryam...

President Trump welcomed President Xi Jinping to the White House for Xi's first visit to Washington in more than a decade. The leaders were expected to discuss extending a trade truce, which was moved from November to January, as well as AI, the Iran war, the war in Ukraine and Taiwan. Reporters from three outlets had been barred from the White House campus despite a federal judge ruling the ban should be temporarily lifted, but CNN, MS Now and Politico were later granted access and had their press credentials restored. BBC's Sean Yuan described pageantry and serious discussions, noting China's domestic economic challenges and bargaining chips such as beef, beans and Boeing from the US and rare earth exports from China.

At the United Nations, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a pre-recorded video address, after the US denied him a visa for the second year in a row, that Israel was threatening the existence of his people in their homeland. He accused Israel of targeting all basic necessities of life and asked what the international community was waiting for to protect Palestinians, saying Israeli policies had gone beyond jeopardizing a two-state solution. Israeli delegates vacated their seats before his speech. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to address delegates shortly amid protests in New York, where the city mayor called for his arrest under an International Criminal Court warrant but acknowledged the city had no authority to do so. Analyst Frank Lowenstein discussed Netanyahu's domestic political focus, the Trump peace plan, Hamas disarmament, the Board of Peace, and sanctions.

Back at the White House, coverage of Xi's state visit continued. The two leaders made remarks lauding their relationship while acknowledging strategic competition, and Trump posted on social media that their positions on AI, which he called super intelligence, were in lockstep and there was no need for guardrails. Former US Trade Representative Katherine Tai discussed the short extension of the tariff truce and a Section 301 investigation into manufacturing overcapacity in China and 15 other jurisdictions that she said was being held back until after the visit, as well as beef and soybean trade.