Trump says in ‘no rush’ to talk to China’s president

US President Donald Trump 

US President Donald Trump said that he is in no rush to talk to the Chinese President Xi Jinping to defuse a trade war between the two countries.

In a press statement from the White House on Feb. 4, Trump said “That’s fine” when asked about China’s retaliatory tariffs, Reuters reported.

White House Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a comment of Fox Business Network that President Xi reached out to President Trump to arrange a call on the issue of foreign trade.

In another statement, she told reporters that a Trump-Xi call still needed to be scheduled.

The step came after Trump started a trade war against China by imposing a comprehensive tariff of 10% on all imports from Beijing. China responded, after US tariff came into force on Feb. 4, by imposing duties of up to 15% on some imports from the US and restricting exports of a range of rare earth metals.