<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dined alongside US President Donald Trump in South Korea ahead of Trump's high-stakes meeting with China's leader.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump was the star of the show at a dinner overnight with seven other leaders from APEC nations in the city of Gyeongju, hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Albanese was seated next to Trump and received high praise from the US president.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hurricane-melissa-update-storm-hits-cuba-after-lashing-jamaica/ad94e02b-508d-4ca6-a3bc-636bea25ae99" rel="" target="_blank" title="Hurricane Melissa leaves 25 dead in Haiti, causes widespread damage in Jamaica and Cuba"><strong><span>Hurricane Melissa leaves 25 dead in Haiti, causes widespread damage in Jamaica and Cuba</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We had a great meeting a week ago," the Trump said, citing Albanese's trip to Washington last week.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You've done a fantastic job and we're working together on rare earths, but we're working on a lot of things together, and it's all working out very well."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In a move aimed at breaking China's chokehold on critical minerals, Albanese and Trump last week signed a $13 billion agreement in the US capital.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/albanese-meets-trump-ahead-of-us-presidents-meeting-with-china-leader/c5490936-6780-4a45-b934-9f35bd1e2eb9" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The US and other countries, including Australia, are investing heavily in rare earths to break China's domination but it may take years for that to pay off.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The dinner was held ahead of Trump's eagerly anticipated meeting with China's President Xi Jinping today, the first face-to-face encounter in his second term.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-october-30-what-happened-on-this-day/d30adabe-e9b6-4542-8f69-62cec4d92c6e"><strong><span>The radio broadcast mass panic that never happened</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump told the other leaders he was dining with he was confident a deal could be reached with Xi.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I think we're going to have something that's going to be very, very satisfactory to China and to us," he said yesterday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The meeting follows months of volatile moves in a trade war between China and the US that have rattled the global economy.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump was infuriated earlier this month after Beijing imposed new export controls on rare earths used in technology and threatened to hike retaliatory tariffs to sky-high levels.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span></span><em><span>- With AP</span></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/Z8tJCf"><strong><span>Sign up here</span></strong></a><span> </span><strong><span>to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.</span></strong></div></div>