In a social media post, Trump described their telephone call as “very good,” underscoring the tentative trade deal the pair and their teams agreed to before they met in South Korea last month on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders summit, though no deal has been signed.

“We have done a good, and very important, deal for our Great Farmers — and it will only get better,” the president wrote. “Our relationship with China is extremely strong!”

He added, “This call was a follow-up to our highly successful meeting in South Korea, three weeks ago. Since then, there has been significant progress on both sides in keeping our agreements current and accurate. Now we can set our sights on the big picture. To that end, President Xi invited me to visit Beijing in April, which I accepted, and I reciprocated where he will be my guest for a State Visit in the U.S. later in the year. We agreed that it is important that we communicate often, which I look forward to doing.”

Trump’s Truth Social post did not mention Taiwan, an issue he omitted during his readout of their previous meeting.

After the meeting in South Korea, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business Network that Xi had agreed to purchase 12 million metric tons of soybeans between now and January, with a commitment of a minimum of 25 million metric tons per annum for the next three years, though Xi made similar promises during Trump’s first administration that have never been met. Trump also agreed to reduce U.S. fentanyl-related tariffs on Chinese imports from 20% to 10% in exchange for, in Bessent’s words, Xi’s “cooperation” countering China’s role in shipping precursor chemicals to Canada and Mexico, though, again, Xi has made similar promises before.

Trump and Xi, too, agreed to a yearlong pause of Chinese export controls, which, from last month, included products with even 0.1% of rare earth minerals produced or manufactured in China. Trump similarly agreed to pause, again for a year, the implementation of a new rule that would have expanded the Commerce Department’s “entity-list” export restrictions to any entity that was at least 50% owned by one or more entities on the department’s list of possible national security risk entities, in addition to the U.S. Trade Representative’s Section 301 investigation, under the Trade Act, of China’s maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding industries.

Trump told reporters last month that Taiwan “never came up” during his meeting with Xi, with China’s readouts and state media reporting omitting the island as well, arguably one of the most important issues in the U.S.-China relationship.

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Trump had sidestepped questions concerning Taiwan before the meeting, including when asked by the Washington Examiner whether Xi was pressuring him to oppose Taiwanese independence as part of trade deal negotiations. 

“We’re going to be talking about a lot of things,” he said at the time. “I assume that’s going to be one of the things, but I’m not going to talk about that.”