President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing this week to meet with President Xi Jinping, marking the first visit to China by a United States president in almost a decade and the first in-person meeting between the two leaders since October . The Leaders’ Summit, which was originally planned for late March or early April, was postponed due to the war in Iran and its rescheduling was announced over the weekend. The face-to-face meeting could set the U.S. and China on a path to repairing trade relations that have come under intense strain over the past year—or, it could solidify the competing ambitions of two world superpowers. “This will be the first visit to China by a U.S. president in almost nine years. President Xi will have in-depth exchanges of views with President Trump on major issues concerning China-U.S. relations and world peace and development,” China Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun said in a press conference Monday morning.…