The US president, Donald Trump, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have held a telephone conversation on Friday, as confirmed by Chinese state media, first, and Trump himself, later. The conversation has served to confirm, according to the president of the United States, that both leaders have sealed an “agreement” so that, on which a prohibition of Congress, it can continue operating in the United States, and also to set a calendar of upcoming meetings. First, they will be seen in South Korea in October; Trump will travel to China “at the beginning of next year”; And Xi will visit Washington “at the right time.”
The interview comes at a time when favorable winds blow in a relationship that was battered, after commercial delegations of both capitals were seen on Monday in Madrid.
The complete message of the Republican was published in Truth, his social network: we advance in many important issues, such as trade, fentanil, the need to end the war between Russia and Ukraine and the approval of the Tiktok agreement ”; wrote the president of the United States.
On the meetings, he added: “I also agreed that we would gather [en octubre] At the APEC summit [siglas del Foro Económico Asia-Pacífico] In South Korea, that I would go to China at the beginning of next year and that President XI would also visit the United States at the right time. The conversation was very positive; We will speak again by phone; I appreciate Tiktok’s approval and we both hope to meet at APEC. ”
He had previously spoken the Chinese part, to say that it has been a “Franco” exchange in which XI has highlighted the role of both countries as allies in World War II before getting to talk about the commercial trenches of the present. “We must appreciate peace and create the future based on remembering the martyrs and history,” said the Chinese president, according to the official reading published in the Chinese state media.
“China and the United States can perfectly drive each other, prosper in common, benefit both countries and contribute to the world,” said XI, highlighting that both have to “make efforts to achieve mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and cooperation in which everyone wins.”
He has also highlighted the importance of recent consultations of US and China delegations, and has expressly referred to Tiktok. His words invite to confirm that the agreement enjoys Beijing’s approval. “The Chinese government respects the wishes of companies and is pleased to see that companies do a good job in commercial negotiations based on market rules to reach solutions that comply with Chinese laws and regulations and balance interest,” he said. In turn, he added, he hopes that “the United States will provide an open, fair and non -discriminatory business environment” for the investments of Chinese companies. The statement also says that Beijing will support the consultations of both teams “to properly solve the Tiktok problem.”
Trump, always according to Chinese reading, has been the recent military parade with which China celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of the war against the Japanese: it was “wonderful,” he said. And has highlighted “cooperation between the two countries” as a vehicle to promote “world peace and stability.” He has assured that Washington hopes to maintain a “good time” relationship with China, and promote economic and commercial cooperation between the two.
The social network of short videos, greatly popular among young people, has thus becoming the excuse of Washington and Beijing to partially channel relationships. The talk, whose duration has not transcended, is the first telephone conversation of the leaders since June, and the third so far this year.
The charm in South Korea will be in October shortly before it ends in November.
The call ends a week that the commercial delegations of both countries gathered in the Spanish capital to resolve their long list of grievances, and managed to agree on a solution principle to break the property of Tiktok from Bytedonce, its Chinese matrix.
On the Chinese social network, with 170 million users in the United States, the Washington ban, unless its matrix, Bytedance, agreed to sell its American subsidiary. The measure was still with Joe Biden in the White House, claiming national security motifs due to Tiktok’s links with the Chinese Communist Party. He was widely supported by the two parties and the Supreme Court confirmed it shortly before Trump’s possession. This postponed three times the entry into force of the law.
The principle of agreement achieved, according to the Delegation of the Popular Republic, implies that the operation of the data of US user and content security services, and would authorize the use of algorithms (one of the fundamental battles: these operations are the alchemy of the application) and other intellectual property rights. It was only missing that the two heads of state gave their approval to the agreement.
The help of the social network
“I like Tiktok; it helped me to be chosen,” Trump said Thursday in a joint appearance before the press with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who ended the state trip of the Republican to the United Kingdom. “Tiktok has tremendous value. The United States has that value in their hands because it is we who have to approve it.” In an apparent reference to the broader commercial negotiations, the American added: “We are very close to reaching an agreement […] We may make an extension with China, but it will be an extension based on the same terms that we have now, which are quite good. ”On Monday, after the pact in Madrid, Trump wrote in his truth:“ The relationship [con China] It is still very solid! ”
In the United States, the acquisition of the social network by a consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz is taken for granted.
The distension between the two powers is a new round in the roller coaster of the economic policy of the Trump era, in which everything that goes up … only to rise again, so it will be difficult to know if a truce has signs or not to sustain itself in time. There have been critical moments, in which Chinese spokesmen have assured that their country is willing to fight “any kind of war” with the United States. Now some more conciliatory times seem to be lived.
Shortly after assuming the position, the tycoon imposed tariffs on imports of Chinese products. Beijing replied forcefully, also raising the taxes to US imports, and restricting the export of
The junction crossing resulted in astronomical rates to commerce, which amounted to an effective crossed embargo between the two colossi. Finally they managed to relax the tensions through meetings of their commercial delegations, first in May – where they agreed to a reduction of the Washington taxes to 30% and from 10% Beijing, and they gave themselves a 90 -day truce, which has spread until November – then in, and finally in.
The battles are numerous and complex. There are purely commercial issues, and others linked to the technological and military career between superpowers. There is also the issue of fentanyl, a powerful opioid whose precursors occur in China and has caused the largest drug crisis in the history of the United States. Some of those outstanding accounts come from afar ,.
After this week’s appointment in Spain, Beijing warned the United States that he considers that Washington has improperly expanded the concept of national security and continuously increased the list of sanctions against Chinese entities, in “a typical act of unilateral intimidation that violates international law”, according to Li Chenggang, a special envoy from China for international trade affairs.
The truce is volatile, and there are always collateral damage. On Monday, Beijing – where the Government rarely acts at random – accused the American chips manufacturer Nvidia of violating Chinese antimonopoolio laws, starting a new fray inside the, which dates back to 2022.
