"We’re just going to work out dates, but we look forward to it, actually... We’ll see what happens, but we’ll most likely be going to China in the not-too-distant future, maybe before this year is out - and he’ll be coming here," Trump told the Breitbart News Network on Tuesday.
In June, Trump said that he had accepted Xi’s invitation to visit China, and promised to make the visit "at a certain point."
On Tuesday, the American president said that he was "not seeking" a summit with the Chinese leader and could only go to China at the invitation of Xi.