No plans to speak to Chinese president Xi: Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump has indicated that he has no plan to speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, amid a war of words between the two countries on a range of issues and tit-for-tat sanctions on lawmakers and senior officials. “No, I haven’t spoken to him,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question at a White House press conference on Tuesday. “I have no plan to speak to him,” the president said while expressing his anger over China’s inability to prevent the spread of the coronavirus out of the country, from where it...