Trump said in his Truth Social post that the hour-and-a-half conversation phone call was “focused almost entirely on TRADE,” while the Chinese readout singled out Xi’s stern warning on Taiwan – the reddest of lines for Beijing – and the issue of Chinese student visas.

Talks between China and the US over tariffs and trade will resume on Monday in London after it appeared that the 90-day truce agreed to last month in Geneva was about to collapse.

In response to President Trump’s claim, China said the United States was the one introducing a series of “discriminatory restrictive measures.”