President Donald Trump speaks with President Xi Jinping, who has arrived for dinner, at the beginning of the summit meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017.
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President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that he spoke by phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping about TikTok, fentanyl, trade and more.
“This meeting was very good for both China and the United States,” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The president-elect, who is scheduled to take office on Monday, said: “I look forward to solving many problems together and getting started soon.”
“We talked about balance on trade, fentanyl, TikTok, and many other topics. President Xi and I will do everything we can to make the world more peaceful and secure!” Trump wrote .
After the phone call, President Xi said that both he and President Trump expressed hope for further progress in U.S.-China relations, Reuters reported, citing Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
President Trump’s meeting with President Xi Jinping about TikTok took place just before the Supreme Court upheld a federal law that effectively bans the popular video-sharing app in the United States.
The law is scheduled to take effect on Sunday. It’s unclear how President Trump, who credits TikTok with helping him defeat Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 election, will respond to the impending ban.
