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Friday, September 19, 2025
Trump after Xi call touts progress on TikTok, says will visit China
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US President Donald Trump hails what he calls progress with Chinese President Xi Jinping, including on selling blockbuster app TikTok, and said he would visit the Asian power, which offered a more cautious assessment of their talks.
The leaders of the world’s two largest economies spoke by telephone for the second time since the return to the White House of Trump, who has tried to keep a lid on tensions despite his once virulent criticism of China.
Trump told reporters ahead of the call that he hoped it would finalize a deal to take out of Chinese hands TikTok, the social media platform hugely popular with young Americans that the Republican mogul has turned to himself to garner support.
Neither side reported a final agreement, but Trump says the call was “very productive.”
“We made progress on many very important issues, including Trade, Fentanyl, the need to bring the War between Russia and Ukraine to an end, and the approval of the TikTok Deal,” Trump writes on his Truth Social platform.
He says he will meet Xi on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in South Korea starting at the end of next month and that he would travel to China next year.
Trump says Xi will also visit the United States at an unspecified time and that the two leaders would speak again by telephone.
The Times of Israel Community.