By Andrea Shalal and Kanishka Singh ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he expected Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the United States without giving a timeline for his trip.
The US president is pushing for a visit and it may be in Beijing’s interests, but considerable hurdles will need to be cleared first.
In order to ease tensions that have remained since the trade war began during his presidency, he said that a meeting with Xi could open the door to a new trade agreement, which many analysts consider crucial.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again refused to make clear his stance on protecting Taiwan from a hypothetical takeover by China during his presidency. Asked by a reporter during a Cabinet meeting whether it was his policy that China would never take Taiwan by force while he is president, Trump declined to give a definitive answer.
China has changed under Xi Jinping, with implications for the entire world. But few outsiders understand much about Xi’s ideas or the policies that seem to flow from them.
The Trump administration's sharp pivot toward Russia and the president's verbal attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent shock waves across the Atlantic this week.
When not alienating America's closest trading partners, threatening to take over Greenland, Gaza and the Panama Canal, slapping China with tariffs and decimating the US$40 billion foreign aid programme,
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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he expected his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to visit Washington ... trade deal" during his first presidency. He said he planned to welcome ...