US President Donald Trump Talking with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping On Friday, in an effort to complete the deal to allow a popular application for social networks Tiktok Continue to work in the United States.
According to the official of the White House and the Chinese news agency Sinhua, the call between the two leaders began at about 8 a.m. Washington.
The call can offer clues about whether these two leaders can meet personally in order to withstand the final agreement on the termination of their trade war and give clarity to where the relations between the two superpowers of the world can move.
This is the second call since Trump returned to the White House and launched high tariffs to heaven to China, which caused restrictions on trading back but Trump, the Republican, expressed his readiness to agree on trading transactions with Beijing, especially for Tiktok, which is faced with the ban on the United States, unless its Chinese maternal company sells its control share.
Two men also performed in June to defuse tension regarding China's restrictions on export of rare -earth elements used in everything from smartphones to fighters.
“I am talking with President XI, as you know, on Friday related to Tiktok, as well as trade,” Trump said on Thursday. “And we are very close to transactions for all this.”
He said that his relations with China are “very good”, but noted that the Russian war in Ukraine could end if European countries put higher tariffs for China. Trump did not say whether he plans to raise tariffs for Beijing from the purchase of Moscow oil, as well as with India.
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The Chinese embassy in Washington on Thursday did not confirm a single upcoming summit between leaders, but representative Liu Pengue said that “head of the head of state plays an indispensable role in ensuring strategic leaderships for relations with China and the United States.”
San Yun, the director of the China program in the Washington Center of the Stimson Analytical Center, predicted a positive discussion.
“Both parties are experiencing a strong desire for the leading summit, while the details are in a trading transaction and what can be achieved for both sides from the top,” San said.
Efforts to complete the Tiktok transaction
After the trade meeting in the USA-China, at the beginning of this week in Madrid, the US Minister of Finance Scott Ibement said that the parties had reached the Tiktoka framework, but Trump and SI will probably complete it on Friday.
Trump, who attributed the application, helping him to win another term, extended the deadline several times so that the application was abandoned by his Chinese maternal company byTedance. It is required to allow Tiktok to continue to work in the United States in accordance with the law adopted last year in order to solve data confidentiality and national security problems.
Trump said that Tiktok “has great value”, and the United States “have such value in their hand, because we are those who should approve it.”
US officials were concerned about roots and Baitedans, indicating the laws in China, which require Chinese companies to transfer data requested by the government. Another problem is a patented algorithm that fills what users see on Tiktok.
On Monday, Chinese officials said that a consensus was achieved by resolving the “use of intellectual property rights”, including the algorithm, and that both sides agreed to entrust the partner with the processing of US -user data and content security.
Member of the House of Representatives of Raja Krishnamurti, a democrat rating in the Committee on the Chief of the Communist Party of China, says that the data and algorithm of Tiktok should be “really in American hands” in order to comply with the law.
Officials from the USA and China held four rounds of trade negotiations from May to September, and in the coming weeks – another. Both sides suspended high tariffs and retreated from sharp export control, but many problems remain unresolved.
Trump in this call, most likely, “seeks to make it seeming that the United States has an advantage in trade negotiations,” said Ali Wine, senior adviser to research and advice on the issues of the United States and China in the International Crisis group.
Si, most likely, “seeks to emphasize the economic lever of China and warn that the ongoing progress in bilateral relations depends on the relief of US tariffs, sanctions and export control,” Wayne said.
No transactions were announced on restrictions on the export of technology, Chinese purchases of agricultural products in the United States or Fentanil. The Trump administration introduced an additional 20% of tariffs for Chinese goods related to the accusations that Beijing could not leave the flow of chemicals used for the production of opioids in the United States.
The second urgent trading war of Trump with Beijing cost American farmers one of their best markets. From January to July, the exports of the American farm to China fell by 53% compared to the same period last year. The damage was even more in some products: for example, sales of sorghum in the United States decreased by 97%.
Josh Gekl, chairman of the American Association of Soy, said that he would follow the result of a Friday call, because China, the largest foreign buyer of American beans, stopped purchases for the new harvest of this year.
“There is still time. It was found that the two countries continue to speak, ”said Gackl. “I think that at the farmers level, disappointment is growing, that they have not yet been able to conclude a deal.”
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