The US and China "should be partners and friends", says Chinese President Xi Jinping as he met with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Apec Summit in South Korea. https://str.sg/FcAW | The Straits Times

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President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday morning in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. It’s their first in-person meeting since President Trump returned to office and comes amid heightened trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Shortly ahead of the meeting, President Trump ordered the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China. The last nuclear weapons te

President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in six years during a meeting in South Korea aimed at settling some trade differences. Trump announced the US will reduce tariffs on Chinese goods entering America, and in return China will start to import more agricultural products such as soybeans. But many other issues remain unresolved, including whether TikTok will be allowed to operate in America and China's continued purchasing of Russian oil. Trump is now due