Dhaka, June 4 -- US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping will likely hold a long-awaited call later this week, the White House said on Monday, as trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies ratchet back up.
Trump reignited strains with China last week when he accused the world's second-biggest economy of violating a deal that had led both countries to temporarily reduce huge tit-for-tat tariffs.
"The two leaders will likely talk this week," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters outside the West Wing when asked whether Trump and Xi would speak
Asked about the statement on Tuesday, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry said Beijing had "no information to provide."
Trump and Xi have yet to have ...