President-elect Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talked on the phone on Friday over a variety of issues with China announcing that its vice president will attend inauguration ceremonies on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday he spoke to China's Xi Jinping about TikTok and other issues as he prepares to take office in a matter of days.

President-elect Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday that he spoke that morning with Chinese President Xi Jinping, just four days ahead of his inauguration.

President-elect Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have discussed trade, fentanyl and TikTok in a phone call Friday, just days before Trump heads back to the White House.

The conversation, which marked the first interaction between the two leaders since Trump’s departure after his first term.

US President-elect Donald Trump and Leader Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation today. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the official Chinese agency Xinhua.

Incoming President Donald Trump said Friday that he has discussed solving the problem of TikTok with China’s president Xi Jinping. The social media platform owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance is set to face a nationwide ban starting Jan.

Xi Jinping, however, will not attend Trump’s inauguration. Instead, China will be represented at the event by Vice President Han Zheng.

BEIJING (Agencies): President Xi Jinping has spoken to US president-elect Donald Trump on the phone, Chinese state news agency Xinhua and international reports have said. The phone call comes with just three days to go for Trump’s inauguration.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said he discussed trade, fentanyl and Tiktok with Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying their phone call "was a very good one for both China and the U.S.A." (Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Susan Heavey) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.