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From tariffs to rare earths, Chinese and US presidents ‘make outstanding group of decisions’ at crunch trade talks
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Trump-Xi meeting: US president says rare earths deal and tariff cut agreed
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Analysis: price of confrontation was too high for both sides
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 outcome of the meeting, 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.”
