Talking to reporters as he met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Washington, Trump pointed to latest talks with Chinese language counterpart Xi Jinping: “In some unspecified time in the future, most likely throughout this 12 months or shortly thereafter, we’ll go to China.”
“We will have an ideal relationship with China,” Trump vowed.
The US chief added, “They’ve some playing cards. We’ve unbelievable playing cards, however I do not wish to play these playing cards. If I performed these playing cards, that might destroy China.”
Tensions between the world’s two largest economies have been simmering this 12 months, however have considerably cooled since April, when each international locations slapped escalating tariffs on one another’s exports.
At one level, the tit-for-tat duties reached triple digits on each side, snarling provide chains as many importers halted shipments to attempt to await the governments to work issues out.
Since then, Washington and Beijing have reached an settlement to de-escalate tensions, briefly reducing tariffs to 30 per cent on america’ aspect and 10 per cent on China’s half.
