The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the president of China, Xi Jinping, will probably have a long -awaited call this week, the White House said on Monday, as commercial tensions between the two largest economies in the world recover.
Trump revived the strains with China last week when he accused the second largest economy in the world of violating an agreement that had led both countries to temporarily reduce the huge Tit -for-Tat tariffs.
“The two leaders will probably speak this week,” said press secretary Karoline Leavitt to journalists outside the west wing when they were asked if Trump and Xi would speak.
Trump and Xi have not yet had any confirmed contact more than five months since the Republican returned to power, despite the frequent claims of the president of the United States that a call is imminent.
Trump even said in a Time Interview of the magazine in April that Xi had called it, but Beijing insisted that there had been any recent call.
Stock markets around the world slide mostly on Monday when tensions between the United States and China resurfaced.
Trump at the beginning of April introduced radical world tariffs that went to China with most of everything, accusing other countries of “cheating” the United States and running commercial imbalances.
Beijing and Washington last month agreed to cut amazingly high tariffs for 90 days after the conversations between the senior officials in Geneva.
But Trump and the senior US officials of Washington accused China of violating the agreement last week, with the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick saying that Beijing was “slowly” the agreement in the comments in the comments in the comments Fox News Sunday.
Beijing rejected those “false” American claims on Monday and accused Washington of introducing “a series of discriminatory restrictive measures.”
Trump has increased separately with other commercial partners, including the European Union, promising double global rates on steel and aluminum up to 50 percent from Wednesday.
