- Telephone call requested by Trump in the midst of tense commercial relations.
- The call occurs amid accusations between the United States and China for critical minerals.
- The 90 -day tariff reversion agreement remains fragile amid accusations.
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, held the conversations with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, by telephone, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua He informed, since bilateral relations have been tensioned by commercial disputes.
Telephone conversations were at Trump's request, Xinhua He said, without providing more details about the conversation of leaders.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The long -awaited call occurs amid accusations between Washington and Beijing in recent weeks for critical minerals in a dispute that threatens to tear a fragile truce in the commercial war between the two largest economies.
The countries reached a 90 -day agreement on May 12 to withdraw some of the triple digit and tit rates per eye that had placed together since the inauguration of Trump in January.
Although the actions recovered, the temporary agreement did not address broader concerns that tense the bilateral relationship, from the illicit fentanyl trade to the state of Taiwan's complaints and the United States about the economic model dominated by the state of China.
Since he returned to the White House in January, Trump has repeatedly threatened a series of punitive measures on commercial partners, only to revoke some of them at the last minute. The approach again and again has baffled world leaders and spooky business executives, who say that uncertainty has hindered the forecast of market conditions.
China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of minerals and critical magnets continues to interrupt the supplies that need car manufacturers, chip manufacturers and military contractors worldwide.
Beijing sees mineral exports as a source of leverage: stopping these exports could exert internal political pressure on the Republican president of the United States if economic growth sinks because companies cannot produce products with minerals.
The 90 -day agreement to reverse rates and commercial restrictions is dim. Trump accused China of violating the agreement and has ordered curbs in the chip design software and other shipments to China. Beijing rejected the claim and threatened the countermeasures.
Trump has pressed for a long time for a call or a meeting with XI, but China has rejected that it does not agree with its traditional approach to resolve the details of the agreement before the leaders speak.
The president of the United States and his assistants see leader to leader as vital to classify the James of trunks that have bothered the inferior level officials in difficult negotiations.
It is not known when the two men spoke for the last time.
The conversations are being observed closely by investors concerned that a chaotic commercial war can reduce corporate profits and interrupt supply chains in the key months before the Christmas shopping season. Trump's tariffs are also in accordance with the ongoing litigation in the courts of the United States.
