Economics
The U.S. and China’s Trade Truce Statements, Compared
- Gap in White House, Foreign Ministry spin shows differences
- Chinese statement, most state media leave out 90-day condition
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The U.S. and China emphasized different results from Sunday’s high-stakes meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, with the split highlighting how much of a gap needs to be overcome over the next three months.
After a dinner which both sides called "highly successful," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi released parallel and rarely overlapping statements. The U.S. listed what China had agreed to in exchange for a 90-day pause in raising tariffs on Chinese goods, while Beijing focused on the broad reduction in trade tensions, without going into specifics.