After 24 Hours, China Still Unaware of Calls Mentioned by Trump

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China declined to confirm phone calls with the U.S. that President Donald Trump claimed happened over the weekend, during which Trump said China indicated it wanted to work toward a trade deal. (Trump claimed that after he raised tariffs higher on China, that China called Trump asking to make a deal)

"I’m not aware of that," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular briefing in Beijing on Tuesday. "Regretfully the U.S. has announced its decision to add new tariffs on Chinese products. Such maximum pressure will hurt both sides and is not constructive at all."

Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times, said in a tweet that top trade negotiators hadn’t spoken by phone in recent days and that Trump was exaggerating the significance of the trade contacts.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said “there were discussions that went back and forth and let’s just leave it at that.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-27/after-24-hours-china-still-unaware-of-calls-mentioned-by-trump?srnd=premium

[Ohiogal]

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another one of the hundreds of lies he tells every day. I can’t wait to get this liar out of office!