President Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the phone on Thursday in the middle of a trade war between the two countries, according to Chinese state media.
The call occurred at Trump’s request, reported the Chinese state agency Xinhua.
Their conversation is an important development in the middle of the trade war between the United States and China, the two largest economies in the world.
This occurs after Trump accused China of violating an agreement negotiated by senior officials in Geneva last month to reduce high rate rates for 90 days. The agreement has seen the United States lower the rate on Chinese products coming to the United States by more than 145% to 30%. China has lowered its sample from American products from 125% to 10%.
President Donald Trump speaks during a summer evening on the southern lawn of the White House in Washington on June 4, 2025.
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Trump, last Friday, said that China had violated the temporary truce but had not provided details.
“So much to be Mr. Nice Guy!” He wrote on his conservative social media platform.
Beijing postponed on Monday, saying that it “firmly rejects unreasonable accusations” and that it was the United States “unilaterally provoked new economic and commercial friction”.
The director of the National House Council Kevin Hassett, during an appearance in ABC “This Week” on Sunday, said the wait was that Trump and the XI of China to speak this week.
Hassett said that “the two will talk about the Geneva Agreement, to whom we are all very favorable, thinking that it is a huge step forward. But what happened is that people had – in China – had to give us licenses for things, and licenses, we think, have been slow is something is something that the presidents want to talk about this week.”
Hassett also said that the team of the American trade representative Jamieson Greer and their counterparts in China “speak every day by trying to advance the ball on this subject”.
Greer said on CNBC last week that China has made slow approval of export licenses for rare land materials, which was also part of the Geneva Agreement.
Meanwhile, Chinese leaders recently said that they had their own concerns about American restrictions on technological exports and the Trump administration attempt to revoke Chinese student visas.
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