Donald Trump and Xi Jinping speak for the first time since June amid trade tensions

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on a phone call as the leaders of the world’s two largest economies sought to finalize a deal to keep TikTok operating in the United States and ease tensions over their long-running trade war.

The call marks the first conversation between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping since June and comes as both sides weigh a potential trade agreement and negotiations over the Chinese-owned short-video app which faces a ban in the US unless its parent company ByteDance sells its American assets.

Ahead of the call, Donald Trump told Fox News that the two sides were “very close to deals on all of it," adding that his relationship with China was “very good" and that “it sounds like they’ve approved TikTok."