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Donald Trump said he had entered into an agreement with Xi Jinping to prevent the United States from imposing a national tiktok ban during the second call between leaders since the American president’s return.
On Friday, in an article on Truth Social, Trump said that he had a “very productive call” on the questions of trade and fentanyl in the need to end the war in Ukraine as well as to conclude a chinoise video application agreement.
“I also agreed with President XI that we would meet at the APEC top in South Korea, that I would go to China at the start of next year, and that President XI would also come to the United States at a appropriate time,” said Trump.
But while a summary of the official Xinhua news agency in China said that the two leaders had held a “positive” and “constructive” call, Beijing did not immediately confirm that the two parties had concluded an agreement on Tiktok. Instead, the summary referred to “consultations between the two teams to properly resolve the Tiktok problem”.
XI added that the United States should refrain from unilateral commercial restrictions.
The negotiators of the two parties met in Madrid this week when they declared that they have concluded an agreement to sell US US investor US investors, pending the approval of the two leaders during the call on Friday.
Tiktok had faced a national ban in the United States after the Congress adopted legislation last year demanding that its Chinese owner be disinterested in US operations due to national security problems.
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