Trump to Send Mnuchin to China for Trade Talks Next Week

‘I think we’ve got a very good chance of making a deal,’ the president says.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said he was sending a delegation of his top economic advisers to Beijing next week to try to settle trade disputes that have upset U.S.-China relations and rattled markets world-wide.

“I think we’ve got a very good chance of making a deal,” said Mr. Trump, who called China’s leader Xi Jinping “a friend of mine,” but noted that there remained significant obstacles to a deal. “They trade with us,” the president said. “We can’t trade with them.”

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