Without specifying the date of the possible meeting, US President Donald Trump spoke about a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to reach a new commercial agreement.
The US president, Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he hopes that Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the United States, without giving a calendar for his trip.
Trump made these comments to journalists at the Air Force One and said that “it is possible” that the United States and China reach a new commercial agreement. A conversation or interaction between XI and Trump is considered crucial for possible flexibility or delay of commercial tariffs.
“We will ultimately have President XI, we will have them all coming (to the US),” Trump said also talking about the possibility that other leaders visit the United States.
XI last traveled to the US in November 2023, in his fifth visit to the country as Chinese president, for a summit with the then US president, Joe Biden, who resulted in agreements to resume communications between military and stop the production of Fentanyl
Trump and Xi had spoken just before Trump's possession, on January 20, and discussed songs such as Tiktok, Commerce and Taiwan.
On Wednesday, Trump told journalists that he was talking to China about Tiktok, while the United States tries to negotiate the sale of the popular application, owned by the Chinese matrix company Bytedonce.
Trump said last week that he had also talked to XI after taking office, but did not offer details about the topics of that conversation. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not directly comment Trump's comments that day and, instead, he sent journalists to his so -called “scheduled” before Trump assumed the position.
Washington and Beijing have tense relationships for years due to differences ranging from commercial tariffs and cybersecurity to Tiktok, Taiwan, Hong Kong, human rights and the origins of COVID-19.