China signals opening for trade talks with US

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump on Wednesday told reporters he expected to speak to China's President Xi Jinping at some point.
44% : Trump wants to negotiate a trade agreement directly with Xi, but Chinese officials have made clear to his administration the two sides would have to reach some kind of deal before the two leaders could speak.
36% : " His comments follow direct warnings from big US retailers, including Walmart and Target, who told Trump in meetings at the White House that the trade war would result in empty shelves at some point.
34% : "Right now . . . they're having tremendous difficulty because their factories are not doing business," said Trump, adding that the US could do without Chinese goods.
32% : Washington and Beijing engaged in a tit-for-tat escalation after Trump started raising tariffs on Chinese goods in February.
31% : Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, on Wednesday told Fox News that the US and China had not held any trade negotiations since Trump took office in January.
26% : In recent weeks, Trump has made multiple claims about talks with China that people familiar with the matter in Beijing and Washington have said are untrue.

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