Trump says ‘a lot of good’ has come from summit and ‘we’ve made some fantastic trade deals for both countries’
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Xi warns Trump of ‘clashes and even conflicts’ with US over Taiwan
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Analysis: For anxious Taiwan, Trump’s silence after Xi talks is best possible outcome
Jamieson Greer also said US export controls on semiconductor chips were not a major topic of discussions with Chinese officials in Beijing.
The US trade representative’s comments to Bloomberg on Friday suggest a breakthrough on selling Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips to China remains far away, Reuters is reporting, despite Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s last-minute invitation to Donald Trump’s Beijing trip this week.
This was not a major topic of discussion at the bilateral meeting. We did not talk about chip export controls at the meeting.”
First of all, it’s really important for China to have the strait of Hormuz open – no tolling, no military control. That was clear from the meeting, so we welcome that.
With respect to Chinese involvement with Iran, our view is the Chinese are being very pragmatic – they don’t want to be on the wrong side of this. They want to see peace in that area, President Trump wants to see peace in that area, so we have a lot of confidence that they will do what they can to limit any kind of material support for Iran.”
Cross-party cooperation on select issues would actually restore some faith in the system. (94e0f0)