The US president, Donald Trump, said Thursday that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, invited him to visit the Asian country and that he responded by inviting Xi to travel to the US, after a telephone talk that the Republican president described as “very positive”.
“During the conversation, President XI had the kindness of inviting us to the first lady (Melania Trump) and to visit China, and I corresponded,” Trump wrote on his social truth network about the call, in which he said they both approached “some details” of the commercial negotiations.
“As presidents of two great nations, this is something that we both expect with enthusiasm,” Trump said, adding that “the conversation focused almost exclusively on commerce” and that “there was no talk of Russia, Ukraine or Iran.”
As president, Trump has visited China only once, in November 2017, at the beginning of his first mandate (2017-2021), before the rivalry between the two largest world powers was exacerbated until the current levels, while Xi visited Trump in Mar-A-Lago in April of that same year.
The Chinese president met in person with Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden (2021-2025), three times, although always on the margins of multilateral summits.
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Trump says that Xi has invited him to visit China after a ‘very positive’ telephone talk
“The call lasted about an hour and a half and had a very positive result for both countries,” Trump added, who said that high -level teams in the United States and China “will meet shortly in a place to be determined.”
The call between the two leaders occurs after last week the Republican accused Beijing, without giving details, of violating the bilateral agreement of tariff pauses reached in May after a meeting in Geneva that had served to relieve commercial tensions between both powers.
Beijing later replied arguing that it was Washington who violated the agreement by imposing new chips or cancellation of visa to Chinese students announced in the last week.
“There should no longer be doubts about the complexity of rare earth products,” Trump added in his current Truth message today without contributing more details about it.
China is the main producer and exporter of rare earths in the world, controlling 70% of the world market, and has activated important export restrictions that have especially affected EU to Europe and Asian countries.
With EFE information.
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