Though he did not announce a trade deal after meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump said he thought it could happen “pretty soon.”

Mr Xi was used to leftovers. As a boy, he would wash in his father’s bathwater. (The next morning the water would be used for a third time, to launder the family’s clothes.) He also understood the importance of deference, for Xi Zhongxun had taught him ...

But Nvidia's hopes to get approval from the United States and China to sell a scaled-down version of its most powerful AI chip yet took a hit from Trump's comments on Thursday. "We're not talking about Blackwell chips,