Donald Trump says China Xi Jinping to visit the United States in the “non -far -long future”

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Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping will soon visit the United States, which is the strongest hint so far about a summit at a time when the great economic powers are being imprisoned in a deep commercial war.

Speaking during a visit to the Kennedy Art Center in Washington on Monday, Trump He said that the Chinese leader “will come in the non -distant future.”

The potential summit would refer to large diplomatic stones for geopolitical competitors, and can help supply multinational companies and investors with the difficulty of Trump’s position in taking relations towards China.

The White House did not respond to the requests for commenting on whether Washington and Beijing had started talking about the summit. Also, the Chinese embassy in the United States did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump has already launched a new trade war with Beijing – after the battle in his first term – with a 20 percent tariff on imports from China. Beijing revenge By slapping the definitions on about $ 22 billion in American goods, targeting the American agriculture sector.

China has not issued general notes on a meeting between the two leaders since Trump took office in January. Trump called Shi to attend his inauguration, but Beijing sent Vice President Han Cheng in his place.

Trump met the eleventh several times during his first term, including a high -level visit to Beijing. Their first meeting was at the Mar-Laggo Resort for the US President in Florida in 2017, just months after Trump took office.

Christopher Johnson, a former CIA analyst, said the visit will be a “coup” for Trump. But he said that it is unlikely to agree with what was not a secret bilateral channel that gave him confidence to risk a visit.

“Every instinct receives a very early visit.” Johnson, who heads the China Strategies Group, said: “He concluded his early visit to Mar Lago in the first period of Trump.

Johnson said he was risky because Shi did not know the results of the commercial study of China, which Trump ordered to be completed by April 1.

Shi is expected to meet dozens of CEOs from the United States and other countries next week after the Chinese Development Forum, a high -level event where executives can deal with senior Chinese officials.

Steve Denz, Republican Senator in Montana, who is approaching Trump, will attend the Beijing Forum, in a rare move by an American politician who hopes to lead to a meeting with Shi on behalf of the American President. Financial Times last week I mentioned He wanted to be set as a presidential envoy to facilitate a meeting with the eleventh – which was denied by the Senator’s Office.