Trump to Press Xi on China Soybean Buys as US Farmers ‘Hurt’

US President Donald Trump said he would confront Chinese President Xi Jinping over Beijing’s refusal to purchase American soybeans, a growing area of tension between the world’s two largest economies.

Trump has said he would meet Xi later this month at the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The US president has come under mounting pressure from Republican lawmakers from the agricultural heartland to break the impasse with China over soybean purchases, which has squeezed farmers.

“I’ll be meeting with President Xi, of China, in four weeks, and Soybeans will be a major topic of discussion,” Trump posted Wednesday on social ...