US President Donald Trump has delighted global investors with the possibility of a reduction in tariffs on Chinese imports. But his apparent willingness to de-escalate America’s trade war with the world’s second-biggest economy has been brushed off by government officials in China and ridiculed online as “chickening out.

Beijing is going on an international charm campaign to coax other countries hit hard by “Liberation Day” tariffs to take on the U.S.

The U.S. and China held talks on Thursday morning to help resolve an ongoing trade war, President Donald Trump said. "We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we've been meeting with China,