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President Donald Trump has no existing plan to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping concerning the current trade war, said a senior White House official on Sunday.
US trade representative Jamieson Greer made the CBS “Face The Nation” appearance on Sunday.
“Does the Trump administration open a kind of Canal in Beijing right now? Are there any plans for the Trump and Xi presidents to speak?” The host of CBS asked Margaret Brennan.
“For the moment, we have no plan about it,” replied Greer. “This problem is really at the level of the leaders. Before April 2, I had a conversation with my counterpart. Since April 2, we have it at the level of the leader and at one point, as President Trump has pointed out, we expect us to have a conversation with them.”
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US President Donald Trump has no planned meeting with Xi Jinping in China. (Win McNamee / Getty / Getty Images images)
Brennan continued by asking if the White House seeks to force China to sell part of its approximately 1.5 billion of dollars of assets detained in the United States Greer said that “was not part of this plan”.
“President Trump has a global program to try to reshape American manufacturing and treat the trade deficit. This is a global problem,” said Greer.
“The only reason we are really in this position at the moment is that China has chosen to retaliate. So many other countries said they did not want reprisals. We want to negotiate with the Americans. And the Chinese made a different decision. So this is not a plan to do it. It was a Chinese decision. They have an agency here,” he added.
Trump says that Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, knows where he is regarding the prices. (Ton Molina / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
GREER’s comments occur one day before XI launched a five-day tour to consolidate trade relations with partners in Southeast Asia on Monday.
China increases prices on American imports to 125%, compared to 84%
XI should visit Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia. Vietnam and Malaysia have major trade relations with the United States and China.
President Donald Trump holds a painting as he pronounces remarks on reciprocal rates during an event in Rose Garden entitled “Make America Wealthy Again” at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025.
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Vietnam was among the many countries that decided not to respond against Trump’s prices last week, in place of negotiating a trade agreement.
