Trump-Xi call to finalize TikTok deal, talk trade

President Donald Trump is set to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday as they try to finalize a deal to keep the popular short-video app TikTok operating in the United States.

HONG KONG — President Donald Trump said that he had made progress on several issues with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a call Friday morning, including on the “approval of the TikTok deal,” and that he plans to meet with Xi in person this fall and in China early next year.

Trump summarized their conversation, which he said began at 8 a.m. ET, in a Truth Social post in which he said he appreciates “the TikTok approval,” but stopped short of announcing any kind of finalized deal. As expected, the call also appeared to touch on the ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

“I just completed a very productive call with President Xi of China. We made progress on many very important issues including Trade, Fentanyl, the need to bring the War between Russia and Ukraine to an end, and the approval of the TikTok Deal,” Trump wrote.

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Trump said that he agreed with Xi that they would meet at the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 APEC summit in South Korea, that Trump would go to China early next year, and that Xi would eventually come to the U.S.