President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke and agreed that officials from the US and China will meet soon for more talks to resolve an ongoing trade war. Trump said he had a “very good” call with Xi for about 90 minutes, which focused “almost entirely” on trade. Trade officials from the countries last met in May in Geneva, where they agreed to temporarily lower retaliatory tariffs on imports from each other’s countries. But the Trump administration has accused Beijing of slow-walking a pledge made in Geneva to approve the export of additional critical minerals, known as rare earths, to the US. n18oc_world n18oc_crux