President Donald Trump announced the United States is prepared to accept up to 600,000 Chinese students as part of a trade deal his administration is trying to strike with China .

"We're going to allow, it's very important, 600,000 students," Trump told reporters Monday at the White House . "We're going to get along with China. But it's a different relationship that we have now with China."

Trump made the announcement ahead of a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung after he was asked when he would sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping .

"I'd like to meet him this year. President Xi would like me to come to China ," he said. "We're taking a lot of money in from China because of the tariffs and different things.… It's a much better relationship

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