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Last Updated:September 19, 2025, 17:59 IST
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping discuss TikTok’s US future and trade tensions between Washington and Beijing on a phone call.
US President Donald Trump with Chinese leader Xi Jinping | File Image/Reuters
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on a phone call as the leaders of the world’s two largest economies sought to finalize a deal to keep TikTok operating in the United States and ease tensions over their long-running trade war.
The call marks the first conversation between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping since June and comes as both sides weigh a potential trade agreement and negotiations over the Chinese-owned short-video app which faces a ban in the US unless its parent company ByteDance sells its American assets.
Ahead of the call, Donald Trump told Fox News that the two sides were “very close to deals on all of it," adding that his relationship with China was “very good" and that “it sounds like they’ve approved TikTok."
TikTok Deal Deadline Extended
TikTok, with about 170 million US users, has until December 16 to reach a sale agreement after Donald Trump extended the deadline for the fourth time earlier this week. Under a law passed by US Congress last year, the app must be transferred to US ownership due to national security concerns over Chinese data-sharing laws.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Washington and Beijing had reached a “framework" agreement on TikTok, but gave no details on potential buyers or control of TikTok’s powerful algorithm. China’s Commerce Ministry confirmed that a “basic framework consensus" had been reached but repeated its opposition to the “politicization, instrumentalization and weaponization of technology and trade issues."
US-China Trade Tensions Simmer
The call aims to address trade friction between Washington and Beijing that peaked earlier this year when tariffs climbed as high as 145%, amounting to a de facto trade embargo. Since then, both sides have scaled back: the US has capped tariffs at 30% on Chinese goods while China maintains an additional 10% tariff on American products. Those measures are set to expire on November 10 unless a new deal or truce extension is reached.
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First Published:
September 19, 2025, 17:53 IST
News world Donald Trump, China’s Xi Jinping Hold Phone Call On TikTok And Trade Deal
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