US and China extend trade truce as President Trump welcomes President Xi to Washington
President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington for a three-day summit, marking a rare tarmac greeting for a foreign leader. The two nations have agreed to extend their existing trade truce.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. and China have sealed a two-month extension to their trade truce, as Xi Jinping landed in the United States for his first state visit in 11 years.Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, a celebrated soprano, touched down at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington shortly before 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
Donald Trump shook hands with the couple, becoming the first U.S. president in six decades to receive a foreign counterpart at that airport, excluding visits by the pope.Around the same time, Bessent unveiled a Jan. 10 deadline for the deal struck last year to keep down tariffs and some export controls between the world’s largest economies.
The Chinese government has not confirmed that expiration date. “I don’t know whether a bigger deal can be done,” Bessent told Fox News.
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U.S.-China trade truce extended as Xi gets rare welcome from Trump
Donald Trump is the first American president to greet a Chinese leader on the tarmac in recent memory.
12 hours agoUS says China trade truce extended as Trump welcomes Xi
US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington on Wednesday for a three-day visit that will test relations between the superpowers as tensions simmer over trade, technology, Taiwan and Tehran. Xi’s first trip to the US in nearly three years was not expected to deliver major breakthroughs, but Washington and Beijing could extend their 11-month trade truce.
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