Trump urged Xi to talk to Takaichi and lift export curbs on Japan, sources say
US President Donald Trump pressed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to roll back China's export curbs on Japan during their meeting in Washington, and urged talks between the Chinese and Japanese leaders. People familiar with the discussions said Xi warned Trump about the growing risks of Japanese militarism. Trump raised Japan's grievances over Chinese export restrictions, including on rare earths, and framed the measures as an indirect violation of the US-China trade truce reached in Busan last October.
Why it matters: The exchange shows export controls and rare-earth supply chains functioning as instruments of leverage across US-China-Japan relations.