Trade War: Donald Trump Receives China's Leading White House Negotiator

The American president, Donald Trump, will meet this Thursday the Chinese vice premier Liu He, as part of negotiations to end the tariff war between the two countries and with versions that recall the agreement.

The meeting with Liu, who is also China's chief trade negotiator, will be held in the afternoon at the White House, according to the official program.

Chinese and American negotiators are work to find a binding agreement that meets Trump's demands, who is complaining about many years of unfair treatment of American companies by the Asian giant, which would reduce tariffs on trade between the two countries.

At the bargaining table, they meet various thorny issues such as the imposition of mutated tariffs between the two countries, the imbalance of the trade balance in favor of Beijing, the forced transfer of technology, the protection of intellectual property rights or the obstacles to foreign investment.

According to US officials, China has for years been resorting to unfair trade practices by subsidizing its companies and usurping the knowledge of US companies.

On March 29, Trump said that negotiations to end the tariff war with Beijing were "very good", but He reiterated that he would accept only a "great deal".

Although the president said the negotiators were on the verge of concluding a pact, the US authorities had eased expectations of imminent results. As reported by the US press, many issues have been resolved, although the methods for making the agreement binding remain to be defined.

(With information from EFE and AFP)