Trump and XI China spoke in the middle of a trade war, reporting on the State Media of China

President Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the telephone on Thursday in the middle of a trade war between the two countries, according to the Chinese government media.

The call occurred at Trump’s request, Chinese State News Agency Xinhua reported.

Their conversation is a significant development in the midst of a trade war between the US and China, the two largest economies in the world.

It happened after Trump accused China of violating an agreement negotiated by high officials in Geneva last month to restore high tariffs for 90 days. The agreement saw the US reduced the tariffs of Chinese goods coming to the US from more than 145% to 30%. China reduced its levies on US items from 125% to 10%.

Trump last Friday said China had violated a temporary ceasefire even though it did not provide details.

“So much to become Mr. Guy Nice!” He wrote on his conservative social media platform.

Beijing pushed back on Monday, saying “firmly rejected unreasonable accusations” and that the US “unilaterally triggered new economic friction and trade.”

Director of the National Economic Council of the White House Kevin Hassett, during the appearance at ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, said that hope for Trump and Xi China to speak this week.

Hasnett said “The two of them will talk about the Geneva agreement, which we all tend to be very profitable, thinking this is a big step ahead. But then what happens is that people must – in China – must give us licenses for things, and licenses, we believe, has been rolled up slowly is something that the president wants to talk about this week.”

Hasnett also said that the US Trading Representative Team Jamieson Greer and their colleagues in China “spoke every day trying to advance the ball for this problem.”

Greer said in CNBC last week that China was a slow approval of export licenses for rare land materials, which were also part of the Geneva Agreement.

Meanwhile, Chinese leaders said it was only new that they had their own concerns about US restrictions on technology exports and Trump’s administrative efforts to revoke the visa of Chinese students.

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