President Donald Trump is still expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea by the end of the month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday after trade tensions between the United States and China flared up in recent days.
“He will be meeting with party chair Xi in Korea — I believe that meeting will still be on,” Bessent told Fox Business of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit scheduled for the end of October.
Trump was expected to meet with Xi at the APEC Summit, but the Republican dashed those plans by suggesting he was canceling the highly anticipated meeting as the two nations engage in trade talks.
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“I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea,
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