Xi wrapping up DC visit with trip to see Constitution, Bill of Rights

Chinese President Xi Jinping will close out his first state visit to the U.S. in over a decade on Friday with a tour of the National Archives alongside President Trump.

The building houses important documents in American history, including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The archives also has an exhibit to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary, called “The American Story,” which features nine galleries that spotlight different eras of the country’s history. It includes state gifts from foreign leaders to past U.S. presidents, George Washington’s annotated copy of the draft Constitution and declassified records from the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Chinese leader will visit the vault of records after beginning his day at the White House for tea with his wife, Peng Liyuan, as well as Trump and first lady Melania Trump.

On Thursday evening, Trump hosted Xi for a state dinner with technology leaders and gave him a tour of the new additions around the executive grounds, including a granite Marine One landing pad and his ballroom construction project.

The two heads of state also held a private meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday, in which they discussed the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula, according to an official Chinese government readout from the meeting. The White House has not provided its own details.

China has repeatedly pressed the U.S. to halt a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan , which Xi’s government considers a Chinese territory. Trump delayed this transaction after his bilateral summit with the leader in May, describing the arms sale as a “very good negotiating chip” with Beijing.

Trump and Xi were also expected to discuss concerns over the risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence , as Democratic lawmakers urge the president to place guardrails on the rapidly developing technology and cut off supplies to China.

“Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China. Tremendous things will be happening,” the president wrote Friday on Truth Social.

“Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE,” the president, who has dismissed concerns around the risks of growing AI, continued. “That would be “SUPER!” Everyone last night agreed, also.”