US president Donald Trump said it would take a new summit with Xi Jinping, his Chinese counterpart, to reach a deal to end the trade war between the two countries, as a high-level negotiating session in Washington looked set to end without any big breakthroughs.
“No final deal will be made until my friend, President Xi, and I meet in the near future to discuss and agree on some of the longstanding and more difficult points,” Mr Trump said in a tweet yesterday. “China’s representatives and I are trying to do a complete deal, leaving NOTHING unresolved on the table.”
Mr Trump’s tweet came on the second and final day of a crucial round of talks led by Liu He, China’s vice-premier, and Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, at the White House.