Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump, according to China’s state media, marking their first direct engagement in several months.
The call came shortly after Xi spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin via video link, during which Beijing and Moscow described their ties as “stabilising” amid global uncertainty. The Kremlin later said Putin accepted Xi’s invitation to visit China in the first half of this year.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that the Xi–Trump conversation took place ahead of an expected visit by the US President to China in April, though no official details were immediately released by Beijing. The White House also did not respond to requests for comment.
The two leaders last spoke by phone in late November, following which Trump described relations between Washington and Beijing as “extremely strong”. That conversation came after a period of heightened tensions in East Asia, including strains in China-Japan relations.
The latest diplomatic outreach comes at a sensitive moment in global geopolitics, with Russia’s New START nuclear arms treaty with the United States, signed in 2010, set to expire on Thursday.
Relations between Washington and Beijing had been strained by months of trade tensions triggered by tariffs imposed by Trump last year. However, ties showed signs of stabilisation after Xi and Trump met in October in South Korea, where the two sides reached a fragile trade truce.
(With agency inputs)
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