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President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States was in talks with China on tariffs, adding that he was confident the world’s largest economies could make a deal to end a bitter trade war.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, we’re talking to China,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I would say they have reached out a number of times.”<\/p>\n
Trump confirmed that the talks had happened since he upped tariffs on China to a whopping 145 percent, after Beijing retaliated to his sweeping “Liberation Day” worldwide levies.<\/p>\n
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But Trump was cagey when asked if he had spoken directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping, despite having dropped several hints in the past that he has.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never said whether or not they’ve happened,” he said when asked about talks with Xi. “It’s just not appropriate.”<\/p>\n
Pressed by reporters whether Xi had reached out to him, Trump replied: “You’d think it was pretty obvious that he has, but we will talk about that soon.”<\/p>\n
Trump’s administration is locked in a war of sky-high reciprocal tariffs with superpower rival China that has unnerved world markets.<\/p>\n
“I think we’re going to make a very good deal with China,” he said at the White House earlier as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited for talks aimed at ending US tariffs on the European Union.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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