Trump said in his Truth Social post that the hour-and-a-half conversation phone call was “focused almost entirely on TRADE,” while the Chinese readout singled out Xi’s stern warning on Taiwan – the reddest of lines for Beijing – and the issue of Chinese student visas.

President Trump spoke by phone to China’s Xi Jinping in a bid to ease the trade war he started by slapping massive tariffs on products imported from the world’s biggest manufacturing