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US-China trade spat to end? Trump keen on locking deal with Xi at G20 meet

It was unclear if Trump was easing up on US demands that China has resisted

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Jenny Leonard, Saleha Mohsin and Jennifer Jacobs | Bloomberg
President Donald Trump wants to reach an agreement on trade with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 nations summit in Argentina later this month and has asked key US officials to begin drafting potential terms, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The push for a possible deal with China was prompted by the president’s telephone call with Xi on Thursday, the people said, requesting anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Afterward, Trump described the conversation as “long and very good” and said in a tweet that their discussions on trade were “moving along nicely.”

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