US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are preparing for a pivotal meeting at 7.30 am IST in South Korea on Thursday aimed at negotiating an end to the long-running trade dispute between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n
This marks their first face-to-face since Trump began his second term and reignited the tariff battle that saw China hit with steep import duties.<\/p>\n
A temporary truce reached in May paused the cycle of retaliatory tariffs that had exceeded 100% on both sides, but fresh strains have since then emerged over chip exports to China and US access to rare earth materials.<\/p>\n
The future of Chinese-owned TikTok\u2019s American operations is also up for discussion in an attempt to steady relations between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are preparing for a pivotal meeting at 7.30 am…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,140323,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-259987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-live-updates-trump-says-us-china","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}