Trump says summit with Xi set in MarchBy The Manila Timeshome/News/World/Trump says summit with Xi set in MarchWASHINGTON, D.C.: US President Donald Trump on Friday (Saturday in Manila) said a trade summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping was likely to occur next month, and hailed two days of “very good talks” by negotiators. But Trump again said he was considering pushing back the deadline for raising tariffs on more than $200 billion in Chinese exports. “We expect to have a meeting sometime in a not too distant future,” he said of the meeting with Xi. And Trump said an agreement on currency manipulation would be included in the trade pact. “From China, we believe that it is very likely that it will happen,” Chinese Trade envoy Liu He said, speaking through an interpreter.

Source: Manila Times February 23, 2019 17:15 UTC