Donald Trump says trade war will ‘hopefully’ be resolved before March – but not before he’s met Xi Jinping
- Trump tweeted that ‘Meetings are going well with good intent and spirit on both sides’ on the second day of trade talks
- But he said it would take a meeting between him and China’s leader to settle the trade war before the March 1 deadline
US President Donald Trump, boasting of good progress in first-day trade talks with China, said on Thursday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping planned to meet soon to work out the toughest issues in the negotiation.
Although he said that Wednesday’s first meetings between American and Chinese negotiators had gone well, Trump added in a morning tweet that “No final deal will be made until my friend President Xi, and I, meet in the near future to discuss and agree on some of the long-standing and more difficult points. Very comprehensive transaction.”
However, he warned in a further tweet: “Looking for China to open their Markets not only to Financial Services, which they are doing, but also to our Manufacturing, Farmers and other U.S. businesses and industries.
“Without this a deal would be unacceptable!”
At the start of the month, sources told the South China Morning Post that previous talks between the US and China had seen Beijing refraining from committing to substantially altering its tech and government subsidy policies.