The tenor of U.S. trade negotiations with China has fluctuated, with prior positive overtures failing to lead to any compromise.
a"brilliant leader" and"great man" during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit in France on Monday.
French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump shake hands during a joint-press conference in Biarritz, France, on August 26.While his comments about the media were standard fare for a president who has regularly taken aim at reporters, his comments on China indicated a shift from just days earlier: On Friday, Trump called Xi an"enemy" after Beijing said it would be levying tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. goods before the end of the year.
And tariffs on about $111 billion of imports from China are still set to go into effect on September 1, with China's retaliatory duties slated to begin on the same date. He talked broadly about negotiations creating uncertainty and issued a desire for both free and fair trade.
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