“They violated a big part of the agreement we made,” Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office. “But I’m sure that I’ll speak to President Xi, and hopefully we’ll work that out.”
US President Donald Trump expressed confidence a talk with Chinese President Xi Jinping could ease fresh trade tensions, after White House officials vented anger over Beijing’s pace of issuing promised export licenses.
The dust-up threatened to again upend trade relations between the world’s two largest economies, which have been held together by a fragile, weeks-old tariff truce.
