BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping and the US president-elect Donald Trump agreed in a telephone call Monday to meet "at an early date" to discuss the relationship between their two powers, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said Monday.

Xi told Trump—who frequently savaged China on the campaign trail and threatened to impose a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports—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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