INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at a dinner meeting in Buenos Aires, on Saturday
the two powers seek to end a trade war
The White House said a threatened increase of tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods from 10 to 25 percent, which was set to take
10 percent tariffs will be raised to 25 percent," a White House statement said after dinner talks between President Donald Trump and his
counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Buenos Aires.Trump, who in recent months has harshly criticized China and accused
it of meddling in US elections, in the statement called his meeting with Xi "amazing and productive."China earlier confirmed the outlines of
the arrangement, saying that officials of the world's two largest economies would get to work on resolving a range of trade disputes.The
trade tensions, China has sharply curtailed its purchases of US soybeans and other produce, dealing a significant blow to farmers, a major
support base for Trump.In what the White House called a "wonderful humanitarian gesture," the White House said that Xi would crack down on
fentanyl, the opioid painkiller largely made in China that is behind an epidemic of US overdoses.The White House said that China would
subject fentanyl makers to the "maximum penalty under the law." China is the world's leading executioner, with drug offenses subject to the
death penalty.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated
