U.S. President Donald Trump said he would speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday as American and Chinese officials reached a framework deal on keeping the TikTok app running in the U.S..

It would be the first direct engagement between Trump and Xi since June.

“I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a very strong one!!!,” Trump said in a post on social media Monday. Referring to a meeting of top officials between the two nations in Madrid, Trump also said that the session “has gone VERY WELL!”

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who led the talks in Spain, told reporters that a framework to keep ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app running in the U.S. had been reached. China’s Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang also told reporters in Madrid that a frame

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