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Outcome appears closer to truce than durable peace but outline of broader diplomatic relationship is visible

When Donald Trump launched his trade war against China in April, threatening tariffs as high as 145%, the Chinese government said it would never bow to blackmail and vowed to “fight to the end”.
The question now is whether the in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday means that the fight really has come to an end, and if so on whose terms.

Talks have helped to steady a rocky relationship between the world's top two economies - but the rivalry persists.

China has suspended export controls announced this month, but was conspicuously silent about rules imposed earlier, which are snarling global supply chains.

From tariffs to rare earths, Chinese and US presidents ‘make outstanding group of decisions’ at crunch trade talks


As Donald Trump flew out of Busan airport in South Korea after his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, the US president sounded upbeat about progress made during less than two hours of talks.
Trump discussed the , which he described as a 12 on a scale of one to 10, with “an outstanding group of decisions made”. He added: “We’ve come to a conclusion on many important points.”

The BBC's Laura Bicker explains how the two nation's have reported on the trade negotiations.

US president makes threat after Russian nuclear-powered weapons tests and shortly before meeting with Chinese leader
Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start matching other nuclear powers in their testing of nuclear weapons, specifically citing Russia and China.
In a , Trump said “because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.”

Donald Trump hails ‘amazing’ trade talks with Chinese counterpart, with ‘no roadblock at all on rare earth’


Donald Trump has described crucial trade talks with the Chinese president in South Korea as “amazing”, saying their dispute over the had been settled and that he would visit China in April.
Xi Jinping has not commented on Thursday’s discussions but noted that the economic and trade teams from both countries had “reached a basic consensus on addressing our respective major concerns” during recent talks in Kuala Lumpur, according to Chinese state media. That had “provided the necessary conditions” for their meeting on Thursday, he added.

Donald Trump said the US and China had agreed 'to a lot of things' during trade talks in South Korea, and would be having further discussions. The US president described Xi Jinping as 'distinguished and respected', while the Chinese leader said: 'We do not always see eye to eye with each other, and it is normal.' Trump hailed the trade talks as 'amazing', saying the dispute over the supply of rare earths had been settled and that he would visit China in April

The two leaders met face-to-face for the first time in six years on Thursday.

Trump says the meeting with President Xi, which was their first face-to-face interaction since 2019, was a "great success".

Island countries understood that a day like this would come.