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China’s Xi, Trump agree to meet ‘at an early date’: CCTV

BEIJING, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Chinese President Xi Jinping
and the US president-elect Donald Trump agreed in a telephone call Monday to meet “at an early date” to discuss the relationship between their two powers, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said Monday.
Xi told Trump — who frequently savaged China on the campaign trail and threatened to impose a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports — that the world’s top two economies “need cooperation and there are a lot of things we can cooperate on”, CCTV reported.