HONG KONG - U.S. President Donald Trump urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to repair ties with Japan and lift Beijing's export curbs on Tokyo during their talks in September in Washington, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported Thursday.
Trump said China's export restrictions on Japan-bound items including rare earths pose a "threat to American industries reliant on Japanese suppliers," describing them as "an indirect violation of the U.S.-China trade truce" reached in South Korea in October last year, the SCMP said.
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