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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said his administration is talking with China to strike a tariff deal and that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called him, Time magazine reported, as Beijing has so far disputed the US characterisation of talks.

The Republican president, in an interview with the magazine published on Friday, did not say when President Xi called or what the two leaders discussed. Trump said he would not call Xi.

“He’s called. And I don’t think that’s a sign of weakness on his behalf,” Trump said.

China’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s statement. Before Trump’s latest remarks were published, it had urged Washington to stop “misleading the public” on bilateral tariff........

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