U.S. President Donald Trump held talks with China’s Xi Jinping at a South Korean air base on Thursday, with both leaders sounding optimistic about cooling trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

The talks in the southern port city of Busan, their first face-to-face meeting since 2019, marked the finale of Trump’s whirlwind Asia trip on which he also touted trade breakthroughs with South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.

“We are going to have a very successful meeting, I have no doubt. But he is a very tough negotiator,” Trump said as he shook hands with Xi, who showed little emotion as Trump told reporters the pair might sign a trade deal on Thursday.

As they sat down with their delegations to begin talks, Xi told Trump via a translator it was normal for the tw

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