President Donald Trump hailed an “amazing meeting” with China’s Xi Jinping, unveiling a trade truce that halves US fentanyl-related tariffs on Chinese goods and see Beijing resume “massive” purchases of American soybeans and other farm products.

The president said he would cut tariffs on China, while Beijing had agreed to allow the export of rare earth elements and start buying American soybeans.

President Donald Trump said he had an “amazing” meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where “a lot of decisions were made” on fentanyl, rare earth minerals and more.

President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping have begun what is expected to be three to four hours of high-stakes ,in-person talks in hopes of lowering the temperature of a simmering trade war that has threatened to boil over and upend the global economy.

Trump, 79, was overheard claiming during a diplomatic dinner hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung that the Thursday meeting with Xi would stretch “three to four hours” — despite official guidance from the White House budgeting a little under two hours for the summit.

Xi told Trump that Beijing had been helping the two Southeast Asian neighbours to settle their border dispute "in our own way", South China Morning Post reported.

President Trump said the issues of Taiwan, Russian oil and Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell chip weren’t raised during his wide-ranging meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South

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