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Donald Trump says he and China’s Xi Jinping ‘love each other’, phase two trade talks to start ‘very shortly’
- The US president addressed the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, less than a week after signing the phase one trade deal with China
- China’s President Xi opted to skip the event. He had previously sent Vice-Premier Lui He to sign the deal in Washington
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US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he and President Xi Jinping “love each other”, while insisting that negotiations for a phase two trade deal will start “very shortly”.
Trump told the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that his relationship with Xi “is an extraordinary one” less than a week after the two countries agreed their phase one trade deal.
“He’s for China, I’m for the US, but other than that we love each other,” Trump said in his speech, stirring laughter in the room.
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“Our relationship with China has probably never been better. We went through a very rough patch, but it has never, ever been better.”
He’s for China, I’m for the US, but other than that we love each other
With Xi again opting to skip the event in Davos, having last attended in 2017, Trump’s comments on Tuesday came less than a week after the US president signed the phase one trade deal with Vice-Premier Liu He in Washington.
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