U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Dec. 29 that he had a “long and very good call” with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and that a possible trade deal between the United States and China was progressing well.
The two nations have been in a trade war for much of 2018, shaking world financial markets as the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods between the world’s two largest economies has been disrupted by tariffs.
