President Trump spoke by phone with China's leader Xi Jinping on Thursday. This is their first known call since Trump began his second term with a focus on higher tariffs on imports of Chinese goods.

Trump, writing on his social media platform Truth Social, called the discussion a "very good phone call" that lasted about an hour and a half, in which the two men agreed to another round of trade talks and talked about potential state visits to each other's respective countries.

Trump also hinted that China may be softening its export controls that have choked off certain metals that Europe and the United States both rely on to use in components integral to many technological and defense industry products

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