Trump’s claim of active negotiations on tariffs ‘baseless’, says China

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Beijing tells US to 'completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China'. Photograph Peter Parks/ AFP via Getty Images The US and China held talks on Thursday to help resolve the trade war between the world’s two largest economies, Donald Trump has said. “We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we’ve been meeting with China,” the US president told reporters at the White House. China earlier hit back against Mr Trump’s previous claim to be close to a trade deal with Beijing. Mr Trump had buoyed markets by suggesting on Wednesday that the US was...