U.S. President Donald Trump will test his deal-making prowess in a region battered by his hardball trade policies on a trip to Asia next week, as doubts hang over his highly anticipated meeting with China's Xi Jinping.

China's top leaders have pledged to boost the country's self-reliance in advanced technologies and spur stronger domestic demand over the next five years.

With a military purge in Beijing before a major political meeting this week some analysts ask: whom can leader Xi Jinping trust?

Chinese officials outlined plans to boost innovation and confidence, while President Xi Jinping issued a belated message on the need to stay proactive amid global uncertainty.

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading up to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

After President Xi Jinping ousted a group of top generals whose careers overlapped for decades, state media accused them of “severely undermining” the Communist Party’s highest echelons of authority.

Nearly one in six officials who had Central Committee seats were absent from a major conclave, many of them now disgraced.

President also called for the country to seize the strategic initiative in remarks made during the drafting of China’s latest five-year plan.