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China sought to depict a call between Xi Jinping and President Trump as an appeal from one strongman leader to another to run a tight ship and stay on course.
By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Berry Wang
China sought to depict a call between Xi Jinping and President Trump as an appeal from one strongman leader to another to run a tight ship and stay on course.
Trump
Administration
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China sought to depict a call between Xi Jinping and President Trump as an appeal from one strongman leader to another to run a tight ship and stay on course.
By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Berry Wang

President Donald Trump spoke by phone to China's Xi Jinping amid a dispute over a trade agreement that saw tit-for-tat tariffs…

Talks have helped to steady a rocky relationship between the world's top two economies - but the rivalry persists.

High-stakes sit-down follows months of tensions and tariff threats over China’s rare earth export controls

Trump's call with Xi came as U.S.-China trade relations have frayed following an agreement in Geneva to temporarily pause most of…

' is warning the US side in no uncertain terms not to screw around,' says Joe Mazur, geopolitics analyst at consultancy Trivium…

Even as a U.S.–China trade truce appears to be holding, analysts caution that the détente remains fragile in a rivalry…

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