US President Donald Trump answers the questions of reporters after leaving Marine One in the White House in Washington, DC, on April 27, 2025.
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China again denied Monday that it is in conversation to solve his rate war with the US, to release a series of statements by President Donald Trump and his assistants suggest that trade negotiations were underway.
“Let me make it clear again that China and the US are in no consultation or denial in rates,” said the spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Guo Jiakun during a press conference.
Guo also seemed to reject Trump’s claim, in an interview with De Tijd last week that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called him.
“As far as I know, there have not been any phone calls between the two presidents recently,” said the spokesperson.
The last general denial was in line with the hard attitude of Beijing against Trump’s huge 145% rates for import from China, a top supplier of American goods.
Trump officials, including Minister of Finance, Scott Bessent, insist that the US is better posted to win a trade war than China is.
But American entrepreneurs and analysts raise alarms that effective trade with China could soon lead to great economic conceit, including higher prices, product shortages and store closures.
Against that background – and the recent claim of Trump that his administration will be ready to prepare new trade agreements with the number of countries in just three or four weeks – Subc -Mamerikan officers have expressed more openness for a dialogue with Beijing.
“Every day we are in conversation with China,” said Trump’s agriculture minister, Brooke Rollins, Sunday at CNN.
When Toled denies the Chinese, Rollins said: “Well, according to our team in Washington, the conversations are underway with regard to multiples of trade, multiples of the trading goods that come out and go inside.”
“It comes down to China this is: they need us more than we need them,” she said.
On Sunday asked why China Woldy denies that negotiations are underway, Bavens said: “Well, I think they are playing for another audience.”
Printed to explain whether the conversations actually happen, he said, “We have a process in place. And again, I just believe that these Chinese rates cannot be covered.”
Last week, Bervens predicted that a “de-escalation” with China came in the “Vray near the future”.
On Monday morning I am focused on that potential de-escalation to help explain why he had not yet been checked that American consumers could soon be dealing with empty shelves.
“Not at the moment,” said Bessent on Fox News, when he was asked if he was worried about ’empty shelves’.
“We have subdiva retailers. I assume they are destined.
In a separate interview on Monday morning on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”, Bavens placed the Unus for Die Der-and-Scalation on China before he said he would not negotiate through the press.
China, you have consistently demanded that Trump, who has stopped rates as a butterful negotiating tool and a way to rake in the government income, scrap his radical import tax.
“If the US really wants to solve the problem … it should cancel all unilateral measures on China,” said a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Trade last week.
That statement, translated from Mandarin by CNBC, was his respect for Trump’s claim on Thursday that the American and Chinese officials ‘had a meeting this morning’.
“We met China,” Trump told reporters, while we refused to sppeck who met who.
Until the next day, Trump said that American officials “actively” talked to China.
