BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping and US president-elect Donald Trump agreed on Monday to meet “at an early date” to discuss the relationship between their two powers, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the same day.

In a telephone call, Xi told Trump -- who frequently savaged China on the campaign trail and threatened to impose a 45-percent tariff on Chinese-made goods -- that the world’s top two economies “need cooperation and there are a lot of things we can cooperate on,” CCTV reported.

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