Media reports claiming that China had suggested to the US that President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump meet in Macau to sign an agreement on the so-called “phase-one” trade agreement by the two countries are “just a groundless assumption,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular press briefing for correspondents in Beijing on Friday, according to the ministry’s official translation.
Geng’s remarks came after Fox News and Reuters reported on Wednesday and Thursday respectively that Beijing had suggested Macau as the venue for inking the “phase-one” trade deal.
While the Fox News report – a tweet by one of its journalists – was unsourced, Reuters quoted an unnamed “China trade source familiar with the issue” as saying that Beijing had suggested Macau as an alternative venue for inking the accord. The Macau Post Daily quoted both media outlets in its reports on the matter.
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