President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Saturday during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, with a senior administration official not willing to commit to whether the talks are aimed at restarting the talks between the two sides that broke down in May or whether they are aimed at reaching a more formal agreement.
"It is really just an opportunity for the president to maintain his engagement as he has very closely with his Chinese counterpart,” the official said. “Even as trade frictions persist, he has got the opportunity to see where the Chinese side is since the talks last left off. The president is quite comfortable with any outcome.”
Trump remains insistent that there needs to be “structural real reform in China across a number of issues and a number of sectors, and nothing about that has changed," another administration official stated, noting the breakdown in talks have not changed the “ultimate goal” of the effort.
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