While Donald Trump hailed the outcome of trade talks in London, Xi Jinping walked away with an understated strategic gain: a negotiating process that buys China time and helps defuse the threat of more harmful tariffs and technology curbs.

It's the first known call between the two leaders since Inauguration Day — and the first time they've spoken since tariffs began ratcheting up.

It’s hard to know if Trump's comments on Xi Jinping suggest the world’s two biggest economies are getting any closer to a deal on tariffs.

President Trump said Wednesday his administration reached a tentative agreement on a trade truce with China following talks between the two sides in London. As part of the agreement, which Trump

President Trump railed against Xi Jinping in a late-night social media post days ahead of their planned call, complaining that the Chinese leader is “extremely hard to make a deal with” as trade talks stall.

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will speak soon to iron out trade issues including a dispute over critical minerals.

US President Donald Trump has held talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping amid rising tensions over Taiwan, as dozens of Chinese military aircraft and naval vessels were spotted circling the disputed island.

The S&P 500 posted a 0.27% decline on Wednesday as investors weighed Trump’s scant-on-details trade deal with China as well as an inflation report that outperformed analysts’ expectations. The stock markets dropped on Wednesday despite a seemingly positive development in the trade war between the U.