Trump claimed the meeting was “amazing” and a “12” on a scale of 1-10, but experts have said Xi successfully leveraged China’s rare earths advantage.

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.

Trump announced a cut on Chinese imports after meeting with Xi in South Korea, citing new understandings on fentanyl enforcement, farm trade and rare-earth exports.

While the much-anticipated Trump-Xi meeting produced modest results, it also revealed China’s growing strengths and could set the stage for a more substantive Trump visit to Beijing next year.

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 and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet at the APEC Summit in Busan as experts say China now holds leverage in the ongoing trade war.

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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