Donald Trump, the US president-elect, spoke by phone with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trump said the conversation concerned, among other things, trade, fentanyl and the TikTok application and was “very good” for both sides.
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Conversation with the leader of China
“I just spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping,” the US president-elect said on Friday Donald Trump.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping (2017)ROMAN PILIPEY/EPA/PAP
He assessed that “the conversation was very good for both China and the US.” “I expect that we will solve many problems together, right away,” Trump wrote on his social networking site, Truth Social. He added that the topics discussed included “trade sustainability issues, fentanyl, TikTok and many others.”
“Chairman Xi and I will do everything possible to make the world more peaceful and secure!” – Trump declared.
Trump announces that he will “save” TikTok
The leaders' conversation, the first since the US elections, took place three days before Trump was sworn in as president, and two days before the entry into force of the law ordering the closure of TikTok's operations on the US market. However, as reported by the AP agency, the outgoing president Joe Biden intends to refrain from enforcing the law on the last day of his presidency, leaving the decision on this matter to his successor. Trump declared that he would “save” TikTok.
Trump previously threatened to impose an additional 10 percent tariffs on goods from the Middle Kingdom on the first day of his presidency if China they will not stop the export of ingredients for the production of fentanyl, a drug that has contributed to the death of almost 100,000. Americans in 2024.
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