Trump, China's Xi invite each other on state visits amid trade fight, US president says

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President Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday connected negotiations regarding commercialized betwixt Washington and Beijing. 

"I conscionable concluded a precise bully telephone telephone with President Xi, of China, discussing immoderate of the intricacies of our precocious made, and agreed to, Trade Deal," Trump said successful a Thursday Truth Social post. "The telephone lasted astir 1 and a fractional hours, and resulted successful a precise affirmative decision for some Countries."

Trump said that the speech focused "almost entirely" connected trade, and that Xi invited the U.S. president and archetypal woman Melania Trump to sojourn China. Trump besides said helium extended an invitation to Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan. 

The telephone comes astir a week aft Trump condemned China for violating an archetypal commercialized statement that the U.S. and China hashed retired successful May, and a time aft Trump said Xi was "extremely hard to marque a woody with" successful a Truth Social post. 

The negotiations led some countries to hold that the U.S. would ramp down its tariffs against Chinese imports from 145% to 30%, and China would chopped its tariffs against U.S. imports from 125% to 10%.

But Trump accused China connected Friday of not holding up its extremity of the bargain, though helium refrained from disclosing specifics. 

"The atrocious quality is that China, possibly not amazingly to some, HAS TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH US," Trump said successful a societal media station Friday. "So overmuch for being Mr. NICE GUY!"

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Trump with Xi Jinping

President Donald Trump (L) shakes manus with China's President Xi Jinping astatine the extremity of a property league astatine the Great Hall of the People successful Beijing connected November 9, 2017.  (Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Friday successful an interrogation with CNBC that China had failed to assistance its non-tariff barriers, arsenic outlined successful the deal. 

"The United States did precisely what it was expected to do, and the Chinese are slow-rolling their compliance which is wholly unacceptable and has to beryllium addressed," Greer said Friday. 

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Meanwhile, China pressed the U.S. to reverse people and urged the U.S. to code its ain mistakes. 

"China erstwhile again urges the US to instantly close its erroneous actions, cease discriminatory restrictions against China and jointly uphold the statement reached astatine the high-level talks successful Geneva," Chinese embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said successful a Friday statement.

TRUMP SIGNALS CHINA ‘VERY MUCH’ INTERESTED IN SECURING TRADE DEAL AHEAD OF SWITZERLAND NEGOTIATIONS

Split representation  of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump

Trump and Xi spoke implicit the telephone connected Thursday to sermon commercialized negotiations.  (Getty Images)

Diana Stancy is simply a authorities newsman with Fox News Digital covering the White House. 

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