Trump says he will delay tariff increases on China

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. — (Image credit: Getty Images)

President Trump announced on Sunday that he will postpone imposing U.S. tariffs on China scheduled for March 1, and is planning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The summit will take place at his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, with the pair finalizing a trade agreement. Trump tweeted that "substantial progress" has been made in trade talks with China on "important structural issues including intellectual property protection, technology transfer, agriculture, services, currency, and many other issues." Trump will hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this week in Vietnam, and he said that Xi has been "very helpful in his support of my meeting with Kim Jong Un."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.