According to the Chinese agency Xinhua, Trump and SI spoke on the phone for the first time since the US president released a commercial war upon returning to the White House. His last famous conversation took place in January, before the investment of the American president, on January 20.
Relations between Washington and Beijing have worsened in recent weeks, when Trump accusations of breaking a commercial truce, which significantly reduced tariffs, without explaining causes or reasons.
“Two weeks ago, China was in a serious economic danger! The very high tariffs that I put on made it almost impossible to trade in the US market, which, of course, is the number of one in the world ”; Trump said in his social network a few days ago: “In practice, we reduced our commercial relations with China, and this was destructive for them. Many factories were closed and were to gently express this ” – civil riots. “I saw what happened, and I did not like it, for them, not for us. I quickly agreed with China to save them from what I thought it would be a very serious situation, and I did not want to see it. Everything quickly stabilized, and China worked normally.
As usual in Trump, he talks about closed factories, violations and devastation, without providing any data or nesting something, which no one had previously said.
In recent days, Bloomberg explains, rare earth lands have become a new stress focus. The United States accuses China of violating his promise to make export control over these key metals for the production of advanced technologies more flexible. Beijing, meanwhile, is upset by the new restrictions on the United States for the sale of software for the design of chips and plans to withdraw a visa to Chinese students.
Recently, a visa for Chinese students approved by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been added to commercial and technological tension.
A week ago, Rubio announced that “under the leadership of President Trump, the State Department will work together with the Department of National Security in order to aggressively withdraw visas of Chinese students, including those associated with the Chinese Communist Party or training in the strategic sectors.”
“In the same way,” said Rubio, “the criteria for a visa concession will be considered in order to increase the level of verification in all future requests from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.”
In addition, the New York Times stated that the Trump administration recently stopped sales in China from critical technologies made in the United States, including those associated with reactions, semiconductors and specific chemicals.
The measure, according to the newspaper, responded to the recent restrictions imposed by Beijing to the export of strategic minerals in the United States, a decision, which, according to the sources known to this, threatens to paralyze the supply chains New York TimesField
Trump, who thinks that he could just do and cancel, said many times that only direct conversations with SI can resolve the differences between the two countries, but the Chinese president still showed that bilateral contact with his American colleague, preferring to leave negotiations in his teams.