President Donald Trump signaled Wednesday that he plans to push Chinese leader Xi Jinping on US soybean purchases when they meet, as American farmers grapple with fallout from his trade wars.

“The Soybean Farmers of our Country are being hurt because China is, for ‘negotiating’ reasons only, not buying,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

“I’ll be meeting with President Xi, of China, in four weeks, and Soybeans will be a major topic of discussion,” he added.

Trump said last month that he would meet Xi on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea starting at the end of October. He also said that he would travel to China next year.

The talks come after Washington and Beijing engaged in a tit-for-tat tariffs war earlier this year, imposing e

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