President Donald Trump is holding a rally in Michigan on Tuesday to mark the first 100 days of his second term. It's his largest public event this term in a state rocked by his trade tariffs and combative attitude toward Canada.

Donald Trump has repeatedly urged Xi Jinping to call him for discussions about a potential trade deal. But any off-ramp to the economic tensions will likely run through Vice Premier He Lifeng, who is Xi's Sino-American trade tsar.

During a press gaggle on Air Force One, President Trump was asked what it would take for him to reduce tariffs on China.

China's foreign ministry on Monday said President Xi Jinping had not spoken to Donald Trump recently, nor were their respective administrations trying to strike a tariff deal, contradicting the U.S. president's claim in an interview with Time magazine.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday did not back President Donald Trump's assertion that tariff talks with China were under way and said he did not know if the U.S. president had talked to Chinese President Xi Jinping.