U.S. President Donald Trump meets with China's President Xi Jinping
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GFMM desk: On Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that both President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump were in touch all along with the media when they wanted to know when and where the leaders could meet.
The ministry's spokesman, Genz Shuang, made the remarks at a daily news briefing in Beijing.
On Friday, Trump suggested he could sign a long-awaited trade agreement with China on the farm state of Iowa.
U.S. and Chinese negotiators have been racing to finalize a text of a ‘phase one’ agreement for Trump and Xi to sign this month, a process clouded by wrangling over U.S. demands for a timetable of Chinese purchases of U.S. farm products.
A critical date is Dec. 15, when new U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports such as laptops, toys and electronics are set to kick in. Both the United States and China have an interest in reaching a deal and averting those tariffs.
Note here, Trump said last week that, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, on November 16-17, 2019, interim trade agreements with China could be signed. Chilean officials say they have canceled the summit to focus on bringing law and order back into the country.
The White House later said that the United States is still expected to sign a preliminary trade agreement with China next month, but no alternative has been set for a meeting between Xi and Trump.
Source: Reuters
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