WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that President Trump’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping is back on — after Trump threatened 100% additional tariffs Friday and said there “seems to be no reason” for a scheduled Oct. 29 summit.

“He will be meeting with party chair Xi in Korea — I believe that meeting will still be on,” Bessent told Fox Business in an interview after Beijing sought to blunt blowback to its new export controls.

Bessent helped broker a May cease-fire in the US-China trade war and said there was “substantial communication” over the weekend — after the Chinese government announced rules Thursday requiring companies to get permission to export products with rare-earth and critical minerals like batteries, magnets and computer chips to

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