US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he expects to make a trade deal with China.
Trump, however, did not offer specifics or indications of how talks would get underway with the two superpowers at an apparent impasse.
The president said this from the White House while responding to a reporter's question about picking up the phone to call China's President Xi Jinping.
“Oh we’re going to make a deal. I think we are going to make a very good deal with China,” he said.
The Chinese commerce ministry, earlier on Thursday, urged the United States to stop putting extreme pressure on the world's second-largest economy.
It demanded respect in any trade talks, but the two sides remained at an impasse over who should start those talks.
While Trump has temporarily relaxed his recently announced hefty tariffs on goods from dozens of trading partners, he left in place his new import levies on Chinese goods that summed together total 145%.
