WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is ready to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and officials from both countries are working to set up a meeting, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday.
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Bessent told CNBC that the US did not want to escalate a conflict with China, and did not want to decouple from the second-largest economy in the world. He said it was due to trust between Trump and Xi that the trade conflict between the two countries has not escalated further.
