{"id":55386,"date":"2025-04-28T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/china-refutes-trumps-claim-of-phone-call-with-xi"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:19:03","slug":"china-refutes-trumps-claim-of-phone-call-with-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/china-refutes-trumps-claim-of-phone-call-with-xi","title":{"rendered":"China refutes Trump&#8217;s claim of phone call with Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Beijing on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump&#8217;s claims that he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my knowledge, there has been no phone call between the two leaders recently,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters in the Chinese capital, according to the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to reiterate that China and the US have not engaged in consultations or negotiations regarding tariff issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his interview with Time magazine published last week, Trump claimed that Xi had &#8220;called&#8221; him, and Washington was in \u201cactive talks\u201d with the Chinese side to strike a deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s a sign of weakness on his behalf,\u201d Trump said of Xi, adding that he expects to have a full slate of deals announced over the next three to four weeks. \u201cThere\u2019s a number at which they will feel comfortable,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Beijing has repeatedly denied that it was in talks with Washington about a deal following the Trump administration&#8217;s 245% tariffs on Chinese imports, to which China responded with 125% tariffs on all US imports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Beijing on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump&#8217;s claims that he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping. \u201cTo my knowledge, there has been no phone call between the two leaders recently,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told reporters in the Chinese capital, according to the South China Morning Post. \u201cI would like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[171,245,5328,4597,5311,5881,443],"class_list":["post-55386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-china","tag-lesotho","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-tariffs","tag-time-magazine","tag-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China refutes Trump&#039;s claim of phone call with Xi - 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