US president Donald Trump on Friday said that there was "no reason to meet" with Chinese President Xi Jinping after Beijing took "very hostile" steps by imposing sweeping new export controls on rare earth elements. Trump warned that the United States was preparing to respond with strong countermeasures, including a "massive increase of tariffs" on Chinese goods entering the US. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: "Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to countries throughout the world, that they want to impose export controls on each and every element of production having to do with rare earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it's not manufactured in China."

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