US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping will likely hold a long-awaited call later this week, the White House said

President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump will likely hold a long-awaited call later this week, the White House said on Monday, as

Trump and Xi have yet to have any confirmed contact more than five months since the Republican returned to power, despite frequent claims by the US president that a call is imminent. Trump even said in a Time Magazine interview in April that Xi had called him -- but Beijing insisted that there had been no call recently.