US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on Friday, September 19, 2025 with a phone call expecting to complete the fate of the online video streaming platform, as well as some of the trade topics between these two nations, AFP reports.
According to local media reported by the news agency, the call began on Friday evening.
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US President Donald Trump told News Portal Fox News before his conversations on Thursday that he would soon discuss “tiktoku and trade …” with China.
“And we are very close to the shops on all of this. And my relationship with China is very good,” Donald Trump said on Thursday on Thursday.
Trump’s call to Chinese President Xi Jinping refers to the second time the US President spoke to the head of the Asian nation after returning to the White House in January 2025.
According to an agency report, on June 5, 2025, Xi Jinping, he invited Trump to visit China, and also expanded the invitation of a potential visit to the Chinese president. However, no travel plans have been completed, but several analysts expect Xi Jinping to repeat their offer during a Friday interview with Trump.
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Tiktok
It is expected that US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will solve the Tiktok problem after Trump has repeatedly postponed a ban according to the US law, which aims to force the Chinese parent company of Sydedance to sell its US operations for national security reasons.
Trump told reporters on Thursday that he hopes to finish something on Tiktoku. The aim of Trump is that US operations Tiktok should be owned by American investors and society.
“We own all American investors and very rich people and society,” Trump said.
However, Trump also acknowledged the value of Tiktok and said that the platform increased its attraction to younger voters who helped him win the election of 2024 against the Democratic Party.
At the beginning of this week, Tuesday, Trump again withdrew the ban on the tictoccus imposed on previous US President Joe Biden, referring to the reasons for national security.
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Tariffs and trade in American China and trade
The aim of the telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is also to find a compromise on tariffs stored by both sides during a heated customs war at the beginning of this year, which was powered by Trump’s “mutual tariffs”.
During the monthly standoffa, both nations of tariffs caused each other to an extremely high level, leading to disruption of the global dynamics of the supply chain.
The United States and China have reached an agreement to reduce import tariffs on top of each other in November 2025. The agreement consisted of the US, which deposited 30% of tariffs on all imports from China, and China deposited 10% import duties on all goods imported from the United States.
According to Trump report, he recently called on European nations to sanction China for buying Russian oil, after the Western nation slapped 50% of tariffs for India for the same reason.
“If they did it in China, I think the war (in Ukraine) might have ended,” Trump The News Portal said.
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