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I have a great relationship with President.
I expect to be able to make a good deal with him,
and I want him to make a good deal for China, but it's got to be fair.
Ahead of a high stakes meeting with Chinese President
Xi Jinping
next week,
US President Donald Trump said he looks forward to making a trade deal.
Certainly, there are a lot of people that are waiting for it.
Maybe it won't happen.
Maybe it won't happen.
Things can happen where, for instance, maybe somebody will say, I don't want to meet.
It's too nasty.
But it's really not nasty, it's just business.
If the meeting on the sidelines of the annual APEC summit goes as planned,
it would be Trump and Xi's first in-person conversation
since Trump began his second term and launched a trade war that's upended the relationship between the world's two largest economies.
The US went from negligible tariffs on China to 10%, then 20, then 54, then 104, then 145.
There's no shortage of sticking points in a potential trade deal between the US and China.
But Bloomberg's Daniel Ten Kate, executive editor of Government and Economics in Asia,