ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping to accelerate and increase Beijing’s purchases of U.S. goods during a phone call on Monday, and the Chinese leader had “more or less agreed.”
“I asked him, I’d like you to buy it a little faster. I’d like you to buy more. And he’s more or less agreed to do that,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I think we will be pleasantly surprised by the actions of President Xi.”
China has resumed purchases of U.S. soybeans and halted its expanded curbs on rare earths exports, but the pace of purchases had been less than initially expected.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Tom Hogue)
