Trump calls dealmaking with China’s Xi ‘extremely hard’ as frictions rise
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US President Donald Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping was “extremely hard to make a deal with” in a comment that comes as frictions rise between the two countries, weeks after they reached an agreement to de-escalate trade tensions.
US President Donald Trump says Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “extremely hard to make a deal with” in a comment that comes as frictions rise between the two countries, weeks after they reached an agreement to de-escalate trade tensions. “I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!” Trump wrote in a post on his platform Truth Social in the early hours of Wednesday morning Washington time. Tensions have ratcheted up between the United States and China as expected trade talks between the two sides appeared to stall just weeks into a 90-day tariff truce agreed to last month in Geneva. That truce hit pause on a damaging tit-for-tat escalation of tariffs sparked by Washington’s raising of duties on Chinese imports into the US. Trump has since accused China of “violating” the agreement – a charge Beijing has denied, while it accuses the US of taking measures that “seriously undermine” their consensus. Trump’s latest remarks come as a long-awaited call between the US president and Xi has yet to materialize, despite repeated suggestions from the White House that such talks, which Washington sees as key to jump-starting progress, were imminent. Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Monday said the two leaders would likely speak “this week,” while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation that aired Sunday said he believed that issues between the two sides would be “ironed out” in a leader-level call “very soon.” China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said it had “no information to share” when asked about the potential call at a regular media briefing. The two leaders are not known to have had a call since days before Trump’s inauguration in January.
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