{"id":43315,"date":"2025-02-12T03:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/when-will-chinas-leader-talk-to-trump\/12\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T03:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:09:23","slug":"when-will-chinas-leader-talk-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/when-will-chinas-leader-talk-to-trump\/12\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will China\u2019s Leader Talk to Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The leaders of the world\u2019s two rival superpowers have plenty to talk about. But so far, it seems, they can\u2019t agree on when they should speak, or even whether they already have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the last 10 days or so, President Trump has sent conflicting messages about talking to China\u2019s top leader, Xi Jinping. Mr. Trump said on Feb. 3 that they would have a call within \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/02\/03\/us\/trump-tariffs\/12fcc3e4-0491-5ccd-8cd5-d594cff0db10?smid=url-share\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">24 hours<\/a>,\u201d then reversed himself, saying he was in \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/business\/economy\/trump-tariffs-china.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">no rush<\/a>\u201d to talk. More recently, when asked whether the two had spoken since he took office, Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/02\/03\/us\/trump-tariffs\/12fcc3e4-0491-5ccd-8cd5-d594cff0db10?smid=url-share\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said that they had<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By contrast, Mr. Xi has said nothing about talking to Mr. Trump. And on Tuesday, China\u2019s foreign ministry suggested that no such call had taken place since Mr. Trump\u2019s return to the White House, apparently contradicting Mr. Trump\u2019s claim, which he made during an interview with the Fox News host Bret Baier that aired this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Xi, it seems, is in no rush to engage, stalling progress on a number of thorny issues in the nations\u2019 competition for global power. (Both sides say the leaders did speak on Jan. 17, before Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration.) Even as Mr. Trump has imposed tariffs aimed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/01\/us\/politics\/canada-mexico-china-trump-tariffs.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">directly<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/10\/business\/china-trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">indirectly<\/a> at China, Mr. Xi has played it cool, preferring to be seen hosting foreign dignitaries at the opening of the Asian Winter Games in the icy northeastern Chinese city of Harbin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The disconnect reflects, in part, how Mr. Xi is trying to show Mr. Trump and the Chinese people that he will not be intimidated by tariffs, analysts say. Mr. Xi does not want to be confused with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada or President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, both of whom quickly <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/world\/canada\/mexico-canada-trump-tariff-deals.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">negotiated with Mr. Trump<\/a> after he threatened to slap 25 percent tariffs on their nations\u2019 exports to the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those leaders \u201ccaved to Trump and Trump claimed victory,\u201d said Zhiqun Zhu, an expert in Chinese foreign policy at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. \u201cXi will not let that happen. It would reflect very, very badly on him domestically. I think the strategy is to wait and see what Trump can offer before taking a call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zhu said Mr. Xi could also be irked by a joint statement that Mr. Trump and Japan\u2019s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, released after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/world\/asia\/japan-ishiba-trump-summit.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">their meeting in Washington<\/a> last week, which addressed Taiwan, the self-governing island claimed by Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump and Mr. Ishiba said they opposed any changes to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait made not only by force, but by coercion. The mention of coercion, believed to be a first, refers to China\u2019s use of nonmilitary means to pressure Taiwan, such as cyberattacks and trade restrictions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To strike any kind of deal with Mr. Xi, Mr. Trump will almost certainly be pressed to soften Washington\u2019s stance on Taiwan. That could include a pledge to reduce American arms sales to the island, or a statement that the United States \u201copposes\u201d formal independence for Taiwan (currently, it says it \u201cdoes not support\u201d that).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is unclear whether the Trump administration would even consider such concessions, which could be widely viewed as a blow to Taiwan\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The administration may also be reluctant to yield on another major demand by Mr. Xi: loosening U.S. restrictions on exports of technology to China, such as the advanced semiconductors needed to power artificial intelligence, a key battleground between the world\u2019s top two economic powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As for Mr. Trump, he wants China to reduce its trade surplus with the United States and do more to crack down on undocumented immigration, as well as the sale of chemicals used to make fentanyl. He has called for China to approve a sale of TikTok so that an American company can buy half of the video-sharing platform, and he has suggested that Beijing help his administration end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chinese analysts said that any promise from Mr. Trump would have to be viewed skeptically. Relations between the two countries seemed stable when Mr. Trump visited Beijing in November 2017 and praised Mr. Xi, saying he did not blame China for its trade deficit with the United States. Two months later, he launched his trade war with China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has \u201csaid some nice words,\u201d said Xin Qiang, a U.S.-China expert at Fudan University in Shanghai. \u201cBut what\u2019s important is how he translates them into action. His actions are the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other analysts said the apparent lack of a call, so far, could be more easily explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chinese leaders typically do not meet or speak with their foreign counterparts until their subordinates \u201cwork out all the thorny issues\u201d for an agreement or a joint statement, said John Gong, a professor of economics at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump, however, operates more like a business executive, looking to negotiate with world leaders on the fly, as he did during his first presidential term with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTrump is a little bit delusional in the sense that he thinks in his own way, the Western way, that somehow he can do a sales pitch and convince Xi\u201d to do what he wants, Mr. Gong said. \u201cIt\u2019s just not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/world\/asia\/trump-xi-china-talks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaders of the world&rsquo;s two rival superpowers have plenty to talk about. 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