Mnuchin: Another China Trade Call This Week

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will hold another call with China trade negotiators this week. "We expect to have another principal-level call this week, and to the extent we make significant progress, I think there is a good chance we will go there later," Mnuchin said at the White House. China acknowledged contacts between the two sides, but little else. "I believe you know that the two teams have been in contact," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters in China. Commenting on the China situation, President Donald Trump indicated his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping has changed. "I used to say he is a good friend of mine, probably not quite as close now," Trump told reporters Monday at the White House. "But I have to be for our country. He is for China and I am for the USA, and that is the way it's gotta be."