WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump held a phone call with Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping on Thursday morning, according to China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency.
The White House has not yet confirmed the call.
The conversation comes amid Trump’s growing frustration with stalled trade talks between Washington and Beijing.
On June 4, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Xi was “extremely hard to make a deal with,” after aides said Trump is expected to have a trade negotiations call with Xi this week.
Trump accused Xi of being “very tough, and extremely hard to make a deal with.”
Trade officials from both countries met in Geneva and announced a 90-day agreement on May 12, during which the high tariffs and retaliatory measures were supposed to be rolled back as further trade negotiations took place….