Major TV Networks Declined to Film Xi’s Arrival The White House TV pool has suspended its coverage of President Trump since he banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Signs of support for banned media outlets have appeared in the White House press gallery.

It could be remembered as a landmark moment in U.S.-China relations: the arrival on Wednesday evening of China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, in the United States, where he was greeted by President Trump at Joint Base Andrews. But because of Mr. Trump’s continuing standoff with the White House press corps, no major network camera captured the proceedings.

Since Monday, the networks that operate the White House TV pool — ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC — have declined to film Mr. Trump’s public events as an act of solidarity with CNN, which, along with MS NOW and Politico, has been barred by the Trump administration. The Associated Press captured video of Mr. Trump’s greeting of Mr. Xi and made the footage available to its subscribers, but the wire service said it would not stream the feed on its own platforms.

On Thursday, the president has a full day of high-stakes meetings with Mr. Xi. It remained unclear if Mr. Trump’s ban would still be in effect on Thursday, and how that might affect the networks’ coverage plans for the day’s events.