It’s not clear, though, that Trump has the advantage in the current showdown. The apparent deal on offer signals little more than a resumption of the status quo from around when Trump returned to office in January and serves as vindication of China’s own hardball approach to the Trump administration’s coercive tactics.

A landmark meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of an international summit in South Korea Thursday appears to have made major strides to resolve frictions in the volatile relationship between the world’s two largest economies and rival superpowers.

Donald Trump says the US can sign a trade deal with China "pretty soon" following talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea He also announces lower tariffs on Chinese imports and says Beijing will give the US better access to rare earths - what are rare earths,

U.S. President Donald Trump says he had an “amazing” meeting with China's top leader Xi Jinping that produced very important decisions

President Donald Trump is heading home after announcing a truce in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The U.S. stock market is drifting around its record heights as Wall Street sifts through mixed developments on everything from the U.S.-China trade war to profits for Big Tech behemoths