US, China Reach TikTok ‘Consensus,’ Setting Up Trump-Xi Call (3)

President Donald Trump said he would speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday as US and Chinese officials reached a framework deal on keeping the TikTok app running in the US.

It would be the first direct engagement between Trump and Xi since June.

“I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a very strong one!!!,” Trump said in a post on social media Monday. Referring to a meeting of top officials between the two nations in Madrid, Trump also said that the session “has gone VERY WELL!”

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who ...