CHINA/G20/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The summit between President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in Argentina was ‘friendly and candid’ and would help to avoid further trade tensions, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Thursday [12-6-18], but offered no new details on the talks. The two leaders held high stakes discussions on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires last week and agreed to a ceasefire in their trade war. State Councillor Wang Yi, the Chinese government’s top diplomat, said the talks about trade frictions had been extremely positive and constructive, helping reach a consensus that worked for both China and the United States. Xi and Trump had ‘deep exchanges in a friendly and candid atmosphere’, setting the direction for an appropriate resolution to the problems between the two countries, Wang said, in a statement carried on the foreign ministry’s website.”
–Reuters, “China Hails Trump-Xi Summit, but Offers No New Details,” The New York Times online, December 5, 2018