Senior U.S. officials will meet with a Chinese delegation in London on Monday to continue trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing, President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday.
The meeting was scheduled following a phone call between Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, which the U.S. president described as “very positive.” The conversation, which lasted about 90 minutes, took place on Thursday and marked an effort to break the ongoing deadlock over tariffs and access to critical rare earth minerals.
Representing the United States in the talks will be Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
“The meeting should go very well,” Trump wrote on his social media account Friday afternoon, raising expectations for potential progress.
According to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the call was initiated by Trump. During the conversation, Xi urged the U.S. president to reverse the “negative measures” taken against China. Xi also emphasized how much the U.S. values the presence of Chinese students in its universities, despite the Trump administration’s recent announcements to revoke certain academic visas.
The discussion between the two leaders—heads of the world’s two largest economies—opens a new chapter in the strained trade relations between their countries.
