Trump’s hard line approach appears to soften in meetings with world leaders

President Trump entered his meeting with President Xi Jinping over the weekend promising to take a tough approach on trade negotiations and pressure his Chinese counterpart into a sweeping deal.

But the meeting did not produce an agreement — and Trump’s stance seemed to only soften as he announced he was relaxing limits on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and delaying new tariffs on Chinese goods in hopes of restarting trade talks with Beijing.

“We discussed a lot of things, and we’re right back on track,” Trump said. “We’ll see what happens.”

View the complete July 1 article by Anne Gearan, Robert Costa and David J. Lynch on The Washington Post website here.