Hours later, Trump said in the Oval Office that he will speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping and “hopefully we’ll work that out,” while still insisting China had violated the agreement.

US President Donald Trump accused China of violating an agreement with the US to ease tariffs, ratcheting up tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

In February Mr Trump halted graft investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, blaming the law for erecting “excessive barriers to American commerce”. Though Mr Trump loves economic coercion, his special envoy, Ric Grenell, has claimed that his boss frets that “sanctions penalise American companies”.

Laura Loomer has called for the deportation of Xi Jinpings daughter, Xi Mingze, amid escalating US scrutiny of Chinese nationals in academia.

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Half a century later, President Donald Trump seems to be eyeing a similar diplomatic maneuver, but in reverse: drawing Russia closer to the United States in order to give Washington an advantage in its geopolitical competition with Communist China.

The Xi Jinping-led nation has requested the United States to “fully cancel the wrongful unilateral tariff measures,” as per a report by RTHK on Thursday. This plea follows a U.S. federal court’s obstruction of most of President Donald Trump‘s extensive tariffs.