Trump and Xi spoke on the phone on Wednesday. Trump described the phone call on his online service Truth Social as “excellent” and said that relations between the two countries were “extremely good.” “My relationship with China and my personal relationship with President Xi is an extremely good one, and we both know how important it is to keep it that way,” Trump wrote. The US president said he spoke with Xi about trade, Taiwan, Iran and Russia’s war against Ukraine. It was also about a trip to China, which he was “very much looking forward to”.
According to Chinese sources, Xi called for “mutual respect” in the phone call with Trump in order to strengthen relations between Washington and Beijing. “By tackling the problems one by one and continually building mutual trust, we can work on a right path for both countries to get along,” Xi said, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
