President Donald Trump said on Monday that Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will soon visit the United States, as the trade tension between the world’s two largest economies increases on Trump’s tariff, AFP Informed
Trump told reporters, “He is coming in a not-dubole in the future,” Trump told reporters that he visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington while talking about the Chinese leader.
Trump did not give any more details.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Washington and Beijing started discussing a possible summit in the United States in June. Both leaders celebrate their birthday in June.
Since returning to the White House in January, Trump provoked tariffs on major trading partners including China, Canada and Mexico, citing trade imbalances and their failure to prevent the flow of deadly fentinyl.
China called for “dialogue” with Washington last week.
Trump raised 10 percent of the blanket tariff earlier this month, which he had earlier reduced to 20 percent on Chinese products.
Beijing responded with a levy of up to 15 percent on a border of American agricultural commodities, including soybean, pork and chicken.
China, the world’s top steel producer, has also vowed to “all necessary measures” in response to the separation of new American tariffs on steel and aluminum.
The XI last visited the United States in November 2023, when he met Republican Trump’s Democratic East Joe Biden in California to reduce the growing tension between two superpowers.
