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Trump’s Xi summit tests his promise to win on trade, North Korea

Bloomberg Published on Fri, Apr 07, 2017 / 8:15 AM GMT+8

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WASHINGTON (April 7): President Donald Trump began his first-ever meeting with the leader of the world’s second-largest economy on Thursday, the country he blames for stealing millions of US jobs and enabling North Korea’s march toward a nuclear missile.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrived at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in the afternoon, the first real test of the US leader’s campaign promises to win negotiations with America’s chief economic and military rival. After defeats on his travel ban and the Obamacare repeal, Trump wants to show progress countering North Korea’s nuclear threat and opening Chinese markets to more US goods.

“We have not been treated fairly on trade for many, many years,” Trump reiterated Thursday morning in a Fox News interview. “We have a big problem with North Korea."