China's Foreign Ministry said Trump initiated a call with Xi Jinping and that communication was crucial to developing stable relations between the United States and China.
Published on November 26, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping has “more or less agreed” to increase purchases of U.S. goods, President Donald Trump said, a day after Beijing described a phone call between the two leaders as “positive, friendly and constructive.”
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday night, Trump said that during the call he asked the Chinese leader to accelerate purchases from the United States.
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“I think we will be pleasantly surprised by President Xi's actions,” Trump said.
“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 okay with it,” she said.
Trump's upbeat forecast on trade with China comes after Beijing announced last month that it would resume purchases of American soybeans and halt expanded restrictions on rare earth exports to the United States amid a detente in the tariff war with Washington.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China had committed to buying 12 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers this year, but Reuters news agency reports that the pace of Chinese purchases had been slower than initially expected.
So far, China has ordered nearly two million metric tons of American soybeans, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture, Reuters reports.
Monday's call between Trump and Xi comes just weeks after the two leaders met in South Korea, where they agreed on a framework for a trade deal that has not yet been finalized.
“China and the United States once fought side by side against fascism and militarism, and now they should work together to safeguard the results of World War II,” Xi told Trump on the call, China's official Xinhua news agency reports.
Xi also told Trump that “Taiwan's return to China is an integral part of the postwar international order.”
China considers Taiwan part of its territory and has not ruled out the use of force to unite the democratic and autonomous island with mainland China.
The United States has traditionally opposed China's possible use of force to seize Taiwan and is required by domestic law to provide enough military equipment to Taipei to deter any armed attack.
But Trump has maintained strategic ambiguity over whether he would commit US troops in the event of a war in the Taiwan Strait, while his administration has urged Taiwan to increase its defense budget.
Trump did not mention Xi's comments on Taiwan in a later post on Truth Social, where he spoke of a “very good” call with the Chinese leader, which he said covered many topics, including Ukraine, fentanyl and American agricultural products.
“Our relationship with China is extremely strong! This call was a continuation of our successful meeting in South Korea three weeks ago. Since then, there has been significant progress on both sides to keep our agreements up to date and accurate,” Trump said.
“Now we can look at the bigger picture,” he said.
The American leader also said he had accepted Xi's invitation to visit Beijing in April and had invited Xi to a state visit to the United States later that year.
China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Washington had initiated the call between Trump and Xi, which spokesman Mao Ning called “positive, friendly and constructive.”
Mao also said that “communication between the two heads of state on issues of common concern is crucial to the stable development of China-US relations.”
Additional reporting by Bonnie Liao.
