Meeting with Chinese President Xi 'very important': Trump

April 01, 2017 00:02

Ahead of his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, US President Donald Trump today described it as a "very important" one.

In an interaction with reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with the National Manufacturers Association, Trump said Xi would soon come for a "big meeting at Mar-a-Lago" residence in Florida which he called "the southern White House, which it actually is".

"It was originally built as the southern White House a lot of people do not know (that)... strange how it got there," he said.

On the meeting, he said "It is going to be something that is very important, very special, I look very much forward to meeting him and the delegation. And we will see what happens".

Trump is scheduled to meet Xi at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on April 6 and 7, which has attracted global attention since Trump had vowed to unleash a trade war with China for what he said was unfair Chinese trade practices.

He even went on to call Beijing a "currency manipulator", but has toned down his rhetoric after becoming the president in January.

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