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U.S. Treasury's Mnuchin says Trump-Xi meeting has parallels to Buenos Aires summit

From reuters.com

A highly anticipated late June meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping has some parallels with their Buenos Aires summit last December that postponed a tariff hike, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday. Mnuchin told Reuters in an interview that the U.S.-China trade dispute was at a similar point in December 2018, when Trump and Xi met on the sidelines of a G20 summit, with a U.S. tariff increase about to kick in on hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese goods. As this year’s June 28-29 G20 summit in Osaka, Japan approaches, Trump is preparing to launch 25% ... (full story)

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