Trump Says China's Xi To Visit Washington 'Soon'

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 26th April, 2019) US President Donald Trump told reporters that Chinese President Xi Jinping will be visiting Washington soon.

"We will soon be having President Xi from China coming," Trump said on Thursday according to a White House press pool report.

Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter, that the United States and China could wrap up a final trade agreement by late May or early June with a formal signing ceremony in the United States.

The White House said in a statement on Wednesday that a new round of trade talks between the United States and China will take place on April 30 in Beijing and May 8 in Washington.

Beijing and Washington have been embroiled in a trade dispute since June, when US President Donald Trump announced the United States would impose 25 percent tariffs on Chinese goods worth of $50 billion in a bid to fix the US-Chinese trade deficit. Since then, the two countries have exchanged several rounds of trade tariffs.