Trump on trade: 'China wants to make a deal'
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(16 Nov 2018) U.S. President Trump expressed confidence in his trade strategy against China as he told reporters, "China wants to make a deal." Washington and Beijing have resumed talks over their spiraling trade dispute ahead of a meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, China's Commerce Ministry said Thursday. Xi and Trump are due to meet this month at a gathering of the Group of 20 major economies in Argentina. The two governments have raised tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's goods in a dispute over Beijing's technology policy. "They sent a list of things that they're willing to do, which was a large list, and it's just not acceptable to me yet," Trump said during a signing ceremony at the White House on cybersecurity and infrastructure security. China's leaders have agreed to narrow their country's politically sensitive trade surplus with the United States but have rejected pressure to roll back plans for state-led development of Chinese champions in robotics and other industries. Washington, Europe and other trading partners say those plans violate Beijing's market-opening obligations, but Chinese leaders see them as a route to prosperity and global influence. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ed550c6bd9546d604805e95edebcf52f
