China has "hoped" to conclude a trade agreement with the United States

China hopes to reach a trade deal with the United States, said Saturday the Vice Minister of Commerce of China. Wang Shouwen, despite the fact that the president Donald Trump warned that he would only accept a "big problem".

"I think there is hope"Shouwen told the press on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress of China (ANP, the Chinese Parliament).

To illustrate the two parties' willingness to reach an agreement, he cited as an example the Sino-US menu served to the delegations of the two countries during their last high-level round of talks last month in Washington.

The Chinese negotiator Liu He "He ate a hamburger while (his counterpart) Robert Lighthizer He took sauteed chicken with eggplant and rice, "Wang said.

"Throughout the negotiation process, tea and coffee were served, but they both drank water," he said. He added: "It was to find a common ground."

Trump warned Friday that the dialogue could be interrupted if the most disputed points were not resolved.

"I have confidence (…) If it is not a good agreement, I will not conclude an agreement", President of the United States said, in a radical turnaround after the optimism of recent weeks.

Despite Trump's recent words, the president's environment is optimistic about a possible deal with China to end the trade war.

Last Monday, the Secretary of State, Mike PompeoHe said the two countries were about to reach an agreement: "We are trying to fix it, to do it in a fair and reciprocal way, I think we are ready and I hope that all these tariffs and barriers will disappear, "he told KCCI Monks television. "

The two economic powers negotiate since January an agreement to end the trade war released last year, which has materialized by reciprocal tariffs worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Washington has asked Beijing to change its laws and practices to protect US intellectual property, end forced technology transfers to Chinese companies, limit generous industrial subsidies, and open the domestic market to US companies.

same distributed versions of a likely summit between Trump and Xi Jinping to resolve disputes and finish sealing the deal.