KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 -- China’s President Xi Jinping could meet his American counterpart Donald Trump in Washington as early as June if the two sides can finalise a deal to end the trade war, according to a source familiar with the arrangements. The news comes after US President Trump said on Thursday that Xi would visit the White House “soon”. The source told De Peet Journal that Xi was open to the idea of traveling to the US immediately after the two sides reached a deal, so that he and Trump could sign the pact face to face. “June is an option but it could be later,” said the source, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue. The trip may be “either be a grand state visit or a relatively low-key working visit”, the person said. Reaching a deal on trade would bring to an end a near year-long dispute between the world’s two largest economies and help to defuse tensions over their rivalry on technology, geopolitics and even people to people exchanges. “We will soon be having President Xi from China coming,” said Trump on Thursday. “We have many, many of the leaders – ultimately, all of the great leaders come here.” The Peet Journal reported last month, after Washington extended the deadline for trade negotiations beyond March 1, that a summit between Xi and Trump was unlikely to take place before June. The Chinese foreign ministry has not published any information about the trip. Officials from the US and China remain locked in talks to bring the trade dispute to an end, with US trade representative Robert Lighthizer and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin set to arrive in Beijing next week for the latest round of talks with their Chinese counterparts. The Chinese team, led by Vice-Premier Liu He, will travel to Washington the following week to continue the talks. While the two sides have been keen to hail the progress they have made since Xi and Trump agreed a trade “truce” in Buenos Aires in November, little is known about the specifics of the remaining stumbling blocks. During his keynote speech at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Friday, Xi said China would open its domestic market wider to foreign investment, enhance protection of intellectual property rights and ban forced technology transfers, boost imports for foreign products and refrain from devaluing its currency.
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