For months, President Donald Trump has suggested his personal relationship with China’s Xi Jinping will be what unlocks the world’s most consequential trade dispute. Yet he hasn’t been able to get Xi on the phone — until,

Donald Trump says his connection with Xi Jinping should be enough to solve the US-China trade mess. But Xi hasn’t been taking his calls. For weeks, Trump tried reaching him and got nothing back. Now,

President Donald Trump said in a late-night social media post that Chinese leader Xi Jinping was very tough to make a deal with, raising questions about whether a fragile economic truce between the world’s two largest economies will hold.