China could be open to starting trade negotiations with the United States, if Washington makes the first move and offers meaningful concessions, an influential Chinese platform wrote on Thursday. The message was delivered in a post from Yuyuantantian,

Trump said in a US media interview published last Friday that his administration was talking with China to reach a tariff deal and that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called him.

US President Donald Trump’s administration has been seeking contact with Beijing to initiate talks on the massive tariffs Washington has imposed on China, according to a state-run media outlet.

China’s government flat-out said on Monday that President Xi Jinping has not spoken with President Trump recently, killing any idea once again that the two leaders were secretly chatting to fix their trade war.

The Chinese foreign ministry on Monday, said President Xi Jinping had not spoken to Donald Trump recently, nor were their respective administrations trying to strike a tariff deal. This is in contradiction to the US president’s claim in an interview with Time magazine that he and the Chinese president had spoken.

In Donald Trump’s latest volley in the trade war, the US leader said China deserved the steep tariffs he imposed on their exports and predicted Beijing could find a way to reduc

On Monday, after Xi's visit, Beijing warned countries against signing trade deals with the U.S. "at the expense of China’s interest."

By Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping used a visit to Shanghai on Tuesday to push for breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and underscore China’s leading role in the "Global South".

China’s foreign ministry on Tuesday released a video saying it won’t capitulate in a message as much to other trading partners as to the U.S.