The US must work with China on ‘deliverables’ if it wants Xi-Trump summit: analysts
Observers predict the two sides must make progress on touchy issues such as trade and fentanyl before China will agree to leaders’ meeting

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had “no information to provide” in response to Trump’s remarks.
Trump has appeared eager to engage China since returning to the White House in January, often boasting about his personal ties to Xi. The pair have spoken at least twice since Trump’s re-election despite Washington’s renewed trade war against Beijing.
However, Josef Gregory Mahoney, an international relations professor at East China Normal University, said China would be “very careful moving forward” with a leaders’ meeting.
Mahoney said the meeting would “only happen if the two sides can reach an agreement on some positive outcomes that go beyond the optics of merely meeting”.