"Probably, in Mar-a-Lago, probably, fairly soon during the month of March", Trump said on Friday when asked of meeting with Xi.
Media outlets earlier reported that US and Chinese officials are discussing a late March summit between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Moreover, China has committed to buying up to $1.2 trillion in US goods as part of the trade deal, according to the sources.
China and the United States have been engaged in a trade war since Trump announced last June that the United States would subject $50 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25 percent tariffs in a bid to fix the US-Chinese trade deficit. The two countries have subsequently exchanged several rounds of trade tariffs.
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At a G20 summit in Argentina in December, Trump and Xi agreed upon a 90-day truce to allow room for a new trade agreement. The truce is set to end on March 1.
