Donald Trump spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping by telephone on Thursday, the state-owned Xinhua news agency said, amid simmering trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies, APA reports.
The call came a day after Trump described his Chinese counterpart as “extremely hard to make a deal with” and in a week that both countries have accused each other of reneging on a trade truce signed in Geneva last month.
The two men were last known to have spoken to each other in January, before Trump’s second inauguration as president.